Cecil Woolf

Cecil James Sidney Woolf (20 February 1927 – 10 June 2019) was an English author and publisher. He was a nephew of the Woolfs of the Bloomsbury Group and lived in Hammersmith and Mornington Crescent. During the Second World War, he was a Captain in the Royal Tank Regiment and fought in Italy.[1]

Cecil Woolf
Born(1927-02-20)February 20, 1927
DiedJune 10, 2019(2019-06-10) (aged 92)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankCaptain
Commands heldRoyal Tank Regiment
Battles/warsSecond World War

Life

He was the son of Philip Woolf and his wife Barbara Lownds, brought up on the Rothschild Waddesdon estate where his father was the manager. He was educated at Stowe School, and then enlisted in the British Army, fighting in its Italian campaign of World War II. Leaving the army in 1947, he worked for the stockbrokers Woolf, Christie and then became a bookseller.[2]

Woolf was the husband of biographer Jean Moorcroft Wilson, who was general editor of the "War Poets" series of monographs that he published.[3]

His writings include A Bibliography of Norman Douglas (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954); A Bibliography of Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957); The Clerk without a Benefice. A study of Fr. Rolfe, Baron Corvo's conversion and vocation (with Brocard Sewell; Aylesford: St. Albert's Press, 1964).

Woolf died on 10 June 2019, at the age of 92.[1][2]

References
  1. "Cecil Woolf", The Times, p. 81, 15 June 2019
  2. Thomson, Liz (26 June 2019). "Cecil Woolf obituary". The Guardian.
  3. John Gulliver (14 September 2018). "Hello to all this – celebrating Robert Graves in style". Camden New Journal. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
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