Ethel Booty


Ethel Mary Booty, was an English photographer of buildings, whose work forms a collection held by Historic England.

Life

Ethel Mary Booty was born in Clapham, London. She was a photographer who contributed to the National Buildings Record between 1940 and the 1960s. Her photographs held in the Historic England Archive focus mainly on church architecture, as well as castles, ruined priories and villages in the south of England. She also contributed photographs to the Conway Library archive, Courtauld Institute of Art, in London, which is currently undergoing a digitisation project. Her Conway photographs include general views of Bolton, views of Bishopsteignton, Devon, and miscellaneous ecclesiastical subjects.
She spent some time in India, and in Madras on 13 January 1897 married a magistrate, Percy Abbey Booty, who worked for the Indian Civil Service. They had a daughter, Doris Marjorie Booty. By 1911 they had returned to England, and lived in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. The three of them are buried under one headstone in the churchyard of St Margaret and St Andrew Church, Littleham, East Devon.

Subjects of her photographs

The following are examples of some of the subjects that she photographed, held in the Historic England archive.

Buildings