Colonel James Augustus Rooth (13 December 1868 – 25 October 1963) was a British colonel and physician who was a member of the

Royal Army Medical Corps The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace. The RAMC, the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, the Royal Army Dental Corps a ...

, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and house surgeon at the

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, Oxford.

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

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. He was educated at

Highgate School Highgate School, formally Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate, is an English co-educational, fee-charging, independent day school, founded in 1565 in Highgate, London, England. It educates over 1,400 pupils in three sections – Highgate ...

and University College University of Oxford where he read history (BA 1890). He was best known as the doctor in charge of the delivery of future vaudevillian and film actors

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, conjoined twins born in

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in 1908 and the first to live to adulthood. He provided a medical testimony of them for the ''

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'' in 1911. He died in Hove, Sussex, in 1963.''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995''

References

1869 births 1963 deaths Royal Army Medical Corps officers Medical doctors from London People educated at Highgate School Alumni of University College, Oxford 19th-century English medical doctors 20th-century English medical doctors {{UK-med-bio-stub