James Augustus Rooth

Colonel James Augustus Rooth MRCS LRCP (13 December 1868 – 25 October 1963) was a British colonel and physician who was a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.

Dr James Augustus Rooth

Life and career

Born in London, the son of John Wilcoxon Rooth, barrister-at-law (1835–1874), and Elizabeth Cody (1825–1917), daughter of Henry Smith of Bristol. He was born in January 1869 and baptised 20 January at St Paul's Church, Camden Square.[1]

He was educated at Highgate School and University College University of Oxford where he read history (BA 1890).[2] He was best known as the doctor in charge of the delivery of future vaudevillian and film actors Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins born in Brighton in 1908 and the first to live to adulthood. He provided a medical testimony of them for the British Medical Journal in 1911.[3]

He died in Hove, Sussex, in 1963.[4]

References
  1. London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
  2. Foster, Joseph, Oxford Men and their Colleges 1880–1892, J Parker Oxford, 1893.
  3. Rooth, James A. (23 September 1911). "The Brighton Conjoined Twins". British Medical Journal. 2 (2647): 653–654. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.2647.653. PMC 2332195. PMID 20765808.
  4. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995


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