Background
Roth, Andrew was born on April 23, 1919 in New York City. Son of Emil and Bertha (Rosenberg) Roth.
Roth, Andrew was born on April 23, 1919 in New York City. Son of Emil and Bertha (Rosenberg) Roth.
BSS, City College of New York, 1939. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1940. Certified in Japanese, Harvard University, 1941.
Doctor (honorary), Open University, Exeter, United Kingdom, 1992.
A well-known figure amongst the politicians and journalists in Westminster for sixty years, he was also known for his appearances on British television He scoured Hansard, gossip columns, vote papers and committee reports to compile his profiles of the personnel of the United Kingdom Parliament and assessed their character traits, history, opinions and psychological drives. The profiles also included cartoon caricatures by Terry Roth.
Roth"s detailed obituaries were composed for international and national figures of note, using the skills and information he had collected in his biographical research.
A catalogue of his published obituaries in the archives of The Guardian provides an insightful and historical perspective to contemporary news as the deaths of the noteworthy are documented and he reviews their lives. He was born to Hungarian parents in New York and attended City College and Columbia, Michigan and Harvard universities, where he studied Far Eastern History.
During 1940 he was a researcher at the Institute of Pacific Relations. He served as a Lieutenant with the United States Naval Intelligence in World World War World War II In June 1945 he and five others were arrested during an Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation into the leaking of documents to the journal Amerasia.
He was subsequently cleared.
Roth was a journalist and foreign correspondent in twenty countries before settling in the United Kingdom in 1950. He was political correspondent for the Manchester Evening News from 1972 to 1984, contributed to the New Statesman from 1984 to 1997 and was an obituarist and contributor to The Guardian from 1996. Roth died of prostate cancer at the age of 91.
Lieutenant (senior grade) United States Navy, 1941-1945.
Married Mathilda Anna Friederich, June 12, 1949 (divorced 1984). Children: Bradley Neil, Susan Teresa Roberta.