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Robert Bootle (c. 1694 – 7 May 1758) was an English ship's captain in the service of the East India Company who was elected four times to serve as a director of the company.
He was born at Lathom House in Lancashire, a younger son of Robert Bootle of Maghull. His elder brother was Thomas Bootle, MP for Liverpool.
He was the commander of the London Indiaman on five voyages to the East between 1723 and 1739. Apart from the London he had a financial interest in the Suffolk.
He lived in Hatton Garden, London, and was a director of the East India Company in 1741–44, 1746–49, 1752–53, and 1755.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1757. His application citation described him as " a gentleman well versed in Mathematical learning, & several other branches of polite literature".
He inherited Lathom House in 1753 on the death of his unmarried elder brother Thomas. On his own death in 1758 it passed to his daughter and sole heir, Mary. He had married Anne Tooke, a daughter of Edmund Tooke of London.
