Education
University College; Highgate School.
University College; Highgate School.
Born in London, the son of John Wilcoxon Rooth, Barrister-at-law (1835–1874), and Elizabeth (1825–1917), daughter of Henry Smith of Bristol. Educated at Highgate School and University College University of Oxford where he read history (Bachelor 1890) 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.
