Frederick Handel Booth (1867 – 24 February 1947) was a British politician, who served as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontefract from 1910 to 1918. He was born near Manchester in 1867, and attended the high school in Bolton le Moors. Whilst in Parliament, he led the government inquiry into the Marconi scandal of 1912. In 1917, he was found liable and guilty of fraud in the high-profile case of Gruban v Booth, having defrauded a German-born businessman of his company and had him interned.