Cecil Woolf
In Italy during the Second World War
Born(1927-02-20)20 February 1927
Died10 June 2019(2019-06-10) (aged 92)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankCaptain
UnitRoyal Tank Regiment
Battles/warsItalian campaign (World War II)

Cecil James Sidney Woolf (1927–2019) 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 joined the Royal Tank Regiment, fought in Italy and rose to the rank of Captain.[1]

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 Royal Tank Regiment at the age of sixteen, fighting in the Italian campaign and rising to the rank of Captain. Leaving the army in 1947, he worked for Woolf, Christie stockbrokers 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] He was himself named after his father's brother, Cecil Nathan Sidney Woolf, who wrote poetry and was killed at Cambrai in the First World War. His father had been wounded by the same shell which killed his namesake.[4]

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.[2][1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Cecil Woolf", The Times, p. 81, 15 June 2019
  2. 1 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.
  4. ↑ "Cecil Woolf, independent publisher who had vivid memories of his aunt and uncle Virginia and Leonard Woolf", The Daily Telegraph, 1 July 2019
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