Booth, William Bramwell (1856–1929)

Eldest son of William Booth. He succeeded his father as ‘general’ of the Salvation Army in 1912 and extended the movement's missionary and social activities. In 1883 he joined with the journalist and reformer William Stead in attacking child prostitution and ‘white slavery’, which resulted in the passing of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.

Booth was born in Halifax, Yorkshire. He was chief of the Salvation Army staff from 1880, assisted by his wife Florence whom he married in 1882, and by whom he had two sons and five daughters, all actively involved in the movement.

His works include Social Reparation (1899), Bible Battle-Axes (1901), Papers on Life and Religion (1920), and These Fifty Years (1929).