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Andrew Roth (23 April 1919 – 12 August 2010) was a biographer and journalist known for his compilation of Parliamentary Profiles, a directory of biographies of British Members of Parliament, a small sample of which is available online in The Guardian.[1] Active amongst the politicians and journalists in Westminster for sixty years, he also made appearances on British television. He scoured Hansard, gossip columns, vote papers and committee reports to compile his profiles of the personnel of the British 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 a historical perspective to contemporary news as the deaths of the noteworthy are documented and he reviews their lives.[2] He was born to Hungarian parents in New York City 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.[3] He served as a lieutenant with the US Naval Intelligence in World War II. In June 1945 he and five others were arrested during an FBI investigation into the leaking of documents to the journal Amerasia. He was subsequently cleared.[4] 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. He contributed five articles to the Dictionary of National Biography Roth died of prostate cancer at the age of 91. He was survived by his third wife, Antoinette Putnam, a son, Neil, a daughter, Terry, and three grandchildren.[5][6][7] References1. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/series/profiles|title=Andrew Roth's parliament profiles|newspaper=The Guardian |accessdate=1 Apr 2010 | location=London | date=14 August 2009}} 2. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/andrew-roth |title=Andrew Roth |newspaper=The Guardian |accessdate=22 May 2017}} 3. ^{{cite book |title=Who's Who |date=January 2007 |publisher=A & C Black}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/aug/22/theobserver.uknews3 |title=Tory ex-MP dons McCarthy's mantle to stalk a 'Commie' at Westminster |date=22 August 1999 |first=Andy |last=McSmith |newspaper=The Observer|accessdate=22 May 2017 |location=London}} 5. ^{{cite news |first=Ian |last=Aitken |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/aug/12/andrew-roth-obituary |title=Andrew Roth obituary |newspaper=The Guardian |date=12 August 2010 |accessdate=22 May 2017}} 6. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/7941729/Andrew-Roth.html |title=Andrew Roth |type=Obituary |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=13 August 2010 |accessdate=22 May 2017}} 7. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/world/17roth.html?_r=0 | newspaper=The New York Times | first=John F. | last=Burns | title=Andrew Roth, 91; American-Born Chronicler of British Politics | date=16 August 2010 |accessdate=22 May 2017}} Bibliography
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