Dr James Augustus Rooth (1868-1962) was a colonel of the Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Army Medical Corps

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 a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary

Radcliffe Infirmary

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, Oxford. Born in London, the son of John Wilcoxon Rooth, Barrister-at-law (1835-1874), and Elizabeth (1825-1917), daughter of Henry Smith (attorney)

Henry Smith (attorney)

Henry Smith was a Bristol attorney-at-law and amateur artist who was forced to flee the country in 1809 after a duel in which he killed his opponent. His travels around Scotland and later Spain and Portugal during the Peninsula War were recorded in a diary which is today kept at the University of...

 of Bristol. Educated at Highgate School and University College University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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 where he read history (BA 1890) he was the doctor in charge of the delivery of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins born in Brighton

Brighton

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 in 1908 and the first to live to adulthood. He provided a medical account of them for the British Medical Journal

British Medical Journal

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