James Genth
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July 17, 1849
| Born | Jacob Scherer Genth July 17, 1849 Ardwick, Manchester | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Died | April 2, 1926 (aged 76) Fulham, London (aged 76 years 259 days) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Shipping Merchant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Genth (1849–1926) was a rugby union international who represented England from 1874 to 1875.[2]
Born Jacob Scherer Genth on July 17, 1849, in Ardwick, Manchester,[2] he was the fifth of at least seven children of Carl Georg Ferdinand Genth and Maria Louise née Scherer. Both his mother and father were originally from Hessen-Nassau and Jacob was baptised there in Frankfurt.[3] His father, known as Ferdinand, had arrived in England in 1842,[4] the year after marrying Maria.[5] Ferdinand traded as a Shipping Merchant operating out of Lancashire.[6] Although christened Jacob, his family were to refer to him as James by the time he was 11.[6] By the age of 21, James was working as a commercial clerk in his father's firm.[7]