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Leonard Woolf was born on November 25, 1880, in London, England.
He was a British essayist, author, political activist, and publisher. He was educated at St. Paul's School (1894-1899) and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1902), where he was elected to the Cambridge Apostles. He joined the civil service in 1904 and spent seven years in Ceylon, an experience that deeply influenced not only his political views but also his fictional writing. With his wife, the novelist Virginia Woolf, he began the Hogarth Press, a vanguard publishing house of the period. They both became influential in the Bloomsbury Group, and, in 1917, Woolf co-founded the 1917 Club. He became editor of the International Review (1919), the international section of the Contemporary Review (1920-1922), The Nation (later The New Statesman), and Athenaeum (1923-1930). He also co-founded and edited The Political Quarterly (1931-1959). Woolf was a committed socialist and member of the Fabian Society and Labour Party and served as a secretary for the Labour Party’s advisory committees on international and imperial affairs (1919-1945). An expert on international affairs, he wrote numerous volumes of political analysis. He was a founding member of the League of Nations Society. Woolf received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex in 1964. In 1965, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Hogarth Press’ first publication, “Two Stories”, comprised his “Three Jews” and Virginia Woolf’s “The Mark on the Wall”. He wrote five volumes of autobiography, “Sowing” (1960), “Growing” (1961), “Beginning Again” (1964), “Downhill All the Way” (1967), and “The Journey Not the Arrival Matters” (1969). His late loving relationship with the artist Marjorie Tulip (Trekkie) Parsons (1902–1996) was revealed in their published letters.
In 1912, he married the writer Adeline Virginia Stephen (1882–1941). He died on August 14, 1969, in Rodmell, England.
Woodyatt, J. B. (James Blain), 1886-1979
James B. (Blain) Woodyatt was born on July 2, 1886, in Brantford, Ontario.
In 1907, he graduated from McGill University. He was an electrical engineer, President and General Manager of Southern Canada Power Company Ltd., Vice-President of the Power Corporation of Canada, and its Chairman of the Board from 1956 until his retirement in 1962.
J.B. Woodyatt Scholarship was established at McGill University for students who have completed a minimum of one year in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
In 1911, he married Mary Davidson. He died on February 11, 1979, in Quebec, Canada.
M. Lousie Woodward was born in 1858 in Vermont. In 1880 she was a student at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Henry Bolingbroke Woodward was born on November 24, 1832, in Norwich, England.
He was a geologist and paleontologist known for his research on fossil crustaceans and other arthropods. He was educated at Norwich Grammar School. He became assistant in the Department of Geology at the British Museum in 1858 and in 1880, Keeper of that department, a position he held until 1901. In 1864, he co-founded and served as an editor of the Geological Magazine until 1918. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873 and received the honorary degree of LL.D. from St. Andrews University in 1878. Woodward served as president of the Geological Society of London (1894–1896) and was awarded the Murchison Medal in 1884 and Wollaston Medal in 1906. He was president of the Geologists' Association (1873-1874), the Malacological Society (1893–1895), the Museums Association (1900), and the Paleontographical Society (1895). Woodward's collections of shells, manuscripts, and casts of fossil vertebrates can be found in the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology. He published " A Monograph of the British Fossil Crustacea, Order Merostomata" (1866-1878), "A Monograph of Carboniferous Trilobites" (1883-1884), and many articles in scientific journals.
In 1857, he married Ellen Sophia Page (1836–1913). He died on September 6, 1921, in Bushey, England.