Robert Woof

Scholar, Author

1931 – 2005

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Who was Robert Woof?

Dr. Robert Samuel Woof was an English scholar, most famous for having been the first Director of the Wordsworth Trust and Museums Director of the Wordsworth Museum at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Lake District, Cumbria. Dove Cottage is known as the centre for British Romanticism movement, having been the home of William Wordsworth from 1799–1808.

The actress Emily Woof is his daughter.

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Born
Apr 20, 1931
Lancaster
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Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • University of Toronto
  • Lancaster Royal Grammar School
  • Pembroke College, Oxford
Lived in
  • Lancaster
Died
Nov 7, 2005
Newcastle upon Tyne

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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