Henry Booth was born in 1788. He became a Liverpool corn merchant and was an early advocate of railways. In 1822 he became the secretary and treasurer of the proposed Liverpool & Manchester Railway. Booth organised and raised the initial capital of 300,000,ドル wrote all the prospectuses and most of the reports published by the company between 1824 to 1830.

Booth worked for the Liverpool & Manchester Railway until the company was merged with the Grand Junction Railway in 1845. Booth became a director of the new merged company London & North Western Railway until 1859.

Although mainly a railway administrator, Booth was interested in locomotive technology. It is claimed that he was influential in the evolution of the multi-tubular boiler. Henry Booth died in 1869.