Editing Charles Boot (section)

==Personal life==
Charles Boot was born in [[Sheffield]], Yorkshire,<ref name="1881census">''1881 England Census''</ref> and the second of 13 children and eldest son of [[Henry Boot]] (1851–1931) and his wife, Hannah White.  Henry and Hannah's first home was in Napier Street, Sheffield next to the [[Plymouth Brethren]] meeting rooms. Henry became a member of the Brethren, eventually forming his own meeting place; Charles would have had a religious upbringing but there is no evidence that he shared his father's enthusiasm.<ref name="Baines">Ron Baines: ''The Boot Family'' (1998)</ref>

Boot was 12 when his father began to work on his own account as a jobbing builder, and Boot joined him after leaving school staying with the firm until his death in 1945. The censuses mark his progress: a joiner’s apprentice in 1891; a foreman joiner in 1901; and a building contractor in 1911. It was in that decade that Boot appeared to take complete control of the business and in the 1919 flotation he was the managing director.

Boot married Bertha Matthews (1870–1926) in 1897, they had two children, Henry and Gertrude and lived at [[Sugworth Hall]] on the western outskirts of Sheffield. Bertha died in late 1926 and in early 1927 Charles remarried in London – to Kate Hebb,<ref name="Baines"/> and in 1929 bought [[Thornbridge Hall]] in [[Derbyshire]].<ref>[https://www.thornbridgeoutdoors.co.uk/about-us/history/ History - Thornbridge Outdoors] Retrieved 2018-03-22.</ref> Charles Boot died in 1945 in a Sheffield nursing home, following an operation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Building firm chief dead |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000726/19450615/069/0005 |access-date=12 May 2019 |work=Newcastle Evening Chronicle |date=15 June 1945 |page=5|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He had been a [[Justice of the Peace]], Member of the Council of the House Builders' Association, President of the [[Federation of Master Builders]] (1944), and a Grand Commander in the [[Order of the Redeemer]], Greece's highest honour.
[[File:Boot_Grave.jpg|thumb|Charles Boot's Grave]]