William Geoffrey Rootes

Rootes was the first son of William Edward Rootes and Nora Press and was educated at Port Regis, Harrow and Oxford.[http://thepeerage.com/p56165.htm#i561647 (William) Geoffrey Rootes] at thepeerage.com (unofficial website)

He married his wife, Marian, on 15 August 1946. Their children were Sally Hayter Rootes and Nicholas Geoffrey Rootes, the 3rd Baron Rootes.

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• [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp69799/william-geoffrey-rootes-2nd-baron-rootes Portraits] at National Portrait Gallery, London, U.K.

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Category:Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Category:1917 births

Category:1992 deaths

Category:People educated at Harrow School

Category:Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford

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