Jacob Snowman

Jacob Snowman (24 November 1871 – 28 February 1959) was a British doctor and mohel, notable for having reportedly circumcised King Charles III in December 1948, and possibly other members of the British nobility and royal family. Wartski has enjoyed generations of Royal patronage, supplying the Welsh gold wedding bands for Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, as well as the bands worn by Prince William and Catherine Middleton. have suggested that the British Royal Family invited Rabbi Snowman ("rabbi" is an honorific commonly afforded to mohels) to circumcise the infant Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace most likely because of his extensive experience with circumcision, and perhaps because non-Jewish family physicians were deemed less familiar or adept with the procedure (which was widely performed on British middle- and upper-class male infants from the 1890s through the 1940s). grounded in secretive Davidic or British Israelist religious tradition. The latter book was published in at least three distinct editions, the last appearing posthumously in 1962 under the co-authorship of his son Leonard Snowman (1900–1976).