The Boothby-Lund family can be traced back to the 14th Century, with the binding together of the Lund family, a noble Anglo-Saxon family, originally from Sweden and based in Yorkshire since well before 1066 and the Boothby clan, the Highland Lairds of Camster and Argyll.

Upon the dissolution of the monasteries, Lord James Boothby-Lund was granted Boothby-Lund Hall.

The Boothby-Lund dynasty has included some infamous characters, including Lord Henry Boothby-Lund, who sailed alongside Captain Kidd as a pirate, plundering ships of all kinds along India’s Malabar coast. Probably most notorious of all was Lord William Boothby-Lund, whom along with Sir Francis Dashwood founded The Hellfire Club, which met irregularly from 1746 to around 1763. In popular legend they held notorious, orgiastic and satanic meetings at Medmenham Abbey, beside the Thames.

By 1879 the family owned 5000 acres of land, however, Lord Sebastian Boothby-Lund lost the entire family fortune through drinking, drugs and gambling.

In 2006, Lord Marcus Simon Sebastian Boothby-Lund, Highland Lord of Camster and Argyll, vowed to win back the family fortunes and to regain and rebuild Boothby-Lund Hall.

The family motto is "cum grano salis".