Leonard
Sidney Woolf (25 November 1880 – 14 August 1969) was a British political
theorist, author, publisher and civil servant, and husband of author
Virginia Woolf.
He was part of the
Cambridge Apostles. Wife Virginia Woolf
Queer Places:
University of Cambridge, 4 Mill Ln, Cambridge CB2 1RZ
80 W Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London SW5, Regno Unito
101 Lexham Gardens, Kensington, London W8, Regno Unito
Asham House, Beddingham, Lewes BN8, Regno Unito
17 Portland Terrace, The Green, Richmond TW9 1QQ, Regno Unito
Hogarth House, 34 Paradise Rd, Richmond TW9 1SE, Regno Unito
The Round House, Pipe Passage, Lewes BN7 1YQ, Regno Unito
Monk’s House, Rodmell, Lewes BN7 3HF, Regno Unito
Leonard
Sidney Woolf (25 November 1880 – 14 August 1969) was a British political
theorist, author, publisher and civil servant, and husband of author
Virginia Woolf.
He was part of the
Cambridge Apostles.
Woolf was born in London, the third of ten children of Solomon Rees Sidney Woolf (known as Sidney Woolf), a barrister and Queen's Counsel, and Marie (née de Jongh). His family was Jewish. After his father died in 1892 Woolf was sent to board at Arlington House School near Brighton, Sussex. From 1894 to 1899 he attended St Paul's School, and in 1899 he won a classical scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] where he was elected to the Cambridge Apostles. Other members included Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, G. E. Moore and E. M. Forster. Thoby Stephen, Virginia Stephen's brother, was friendly with the Apostles, though not a member himself. Woolf was awarded his BA in 1902, but stayed there for another year to study for the Civil Service examinations held then.
In October 1904 Woolf moved to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to become a cadet in the Ceylon Civil Service, in Jaffna and later Kandy,[2] and by August 1908 was named an assistant government agent in the Southern Province, where he administered the District of Hambantota. Woolf returned to England in May 1911 for a year's leave. Instead, however, he resigned in early 1912 and that same year married Virginia Stephen.
Leonard and Virginia Woolf lived at 17 The Green Richmond starting from October 1914. In early March 1915 the couple moved to nearby Hogarth House, Paradise Road.[3]
In 1919, the Woolfs purchased the Round House in Pipe Passage, Lewes. The same year they discovered Monk’s House in nearby Rodmell, which both she and Leonard favored because of its orchard and garden. She then bought Monk’s House and sold the Round House.[4]
Together Leonard and Virginia Woolf became influential in the Bloomsbury Group, which also included various other former Apostles.
In December 1917 Woolf became one of the co-founders of the 1917 Club, which met in Gerrard Street, Soho.
The Memoir Club (Duncan Grant; Leonard Woolf; Vanessa Bell; Clive Bell; David Garnett; Baron Keynes; Lydia Lopokova; Sir Desmond MacCarthy; Mary MacCarthy; Quentin Bell; E. M. Forster)
Vanessa Bell (1879–1961)
National Portrait Gallery, London
The Green, Richmond
The Round House
Monk's House
Woolf died on 14 August 1969 from a stroke. He was cremated and his ashes were buried alongside his wife's beneath an elm tree in his beloved garden at Monk's House, Rodmell, Sussex. The tree subsequently blew down and Woolf's remains have since been marked by a bronze bust.
His papers are held by the University of Sussex at Falmer.
My published books:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Woolf