Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
William L. Booker
British Consul-General
Centurion, 1885–1905
Proposed by
Not recorded
Not recorded
born
July 12, 1824
London, England
London, England
died
February 19, 1905
London, England
London, England
elected
February 7, 1885
Age sixty
Age sixty
buried
West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium,
Lambeth, Greater London, England
Lambeth, Greater London, England
proposer of
seconder of
Century Memorial
Sir William Lane Booker, C.M.G., was elected to The Century in 1885, two years after his promotion to be British Consul-General at New York (January 1, 1883). He was born in 1824, and after five years’ employment in the British Consulate at San Francisco he was appointed Consul there in 1857. In 1886 he was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, and was knighted March 12, 1894. On July 12 of the same year he retired on a pension, after more than twoscore years of faithful and honorable service.
Edward Cary
1907 Century Association Yearbook
