BOONE, Charles (?1729-1819), of Barking Hall, Suff. and Lee Place, Kent.

In his last Parliament Boone continued to sit for Castle Rising on the Walpole interest, as an old and respected friend of the family who gave a silent support to Pitt’s administration. In April 1791 he was listed hostile to the repeal of the Test Act in Scotland. He ‘left no mark as a politician’EHR, liv. 461; Horace Walpole’s corresp. with him is ‘missing’ (Corresp. (Yale ed.), xxxii. 355n). Lord Sheffield in his list of Members who attended the ‘third party’ meeting of 17 Feb. 1793 (Add. 34448, f. 296) appears to include ‘Boone’, but no confirmation of this has been found. and retired in 1796. He died ‘in his ninetieth year’, 3 Mar. 1819, worth nearly half a million, which was inherited by his daughter Harriet, wife of (Sir) William Drummond.Gent. Mag. (1819), 284.