James Augustus Rooth

Who was James Augustus Rooth?

Dr James Augustus Rooth was a colonel of the Royal Army Medical Corps, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Born in London, the son of John Wilcoxon Rooth, Barrister-at-law, and Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Smith of Bristol. Educated at Highgate School and University College University of Oxford where he read history he was the doctor in charge of the delivery of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins born in Brighton in 1908 and the first to live to adulthood. He provided a medical account of them for the British Medical Journal in 1911.