Jasper St John Rootham
born 21.11.1910 Cambridge
son of Cyril and Rosamond Margaret (nee Lucas) Rootham
educated Tonbridge School
graduated St John's College,Cambridge (entered 1928)
Civil Service (Prime Minister's office)
OCTU (Cadet)
commissioned 28.6.1941 as 2Lt (194185) Yorkshire Hussars (T.A.)
SOE 1941
fluent in French and German
parachute training,Cairo
SOE Yugoslavia 1943-44
Berlin 1945 (negotiations with Russian Army)
Bank of England 1948-68
Lazard Brothers (London merchant bank)
author of Miss-Fire:The Chronicle of a British Mission to Mihailovich 1943-44 (1946)
novelist and poet
married Joan McClelland 1945 (2 children John Daniel and Catherine Virginia)
died 28.5.1990
