Cecil Woolf


Cecil James Sidney Woolf 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.

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.
Woolf was the husband of biographer Jean Moorcroft Wilson, who was general editor of the "War Poets" series of monographs that he published.
His writings include A Bibliography of Norman Douglas ; A Bibliography of Frederick Rolfe Baron Corvo ; The Clerk without a Benefice. A study of Fr. Rolfe, Baron Corvo's conversion and vocation.
Woolf died on 10 June 2019, at the age of 92.