Geoffrey Woolley Papers

Papers of the journalist Geoffrey Woolley, including a group of letters, 1906-1915, from the poet Edward Thomas to W. H. Hudson.

Geoffrey Downing Woolley, born 29 June 1915, was the son of William Downing Woolley of Rhyd Hall, Tredegar, co. Mon., colliery manager, and Gladys Parry his wife. Woolley was educated at Brean House, Clifton College and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he read English and law. He worked on the Monmouthshire Beacon newspaper in 1938, and the Western Mail, before joining the Times of London in May 1939. A member of the London Welsh Territorials, he transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1939, serving first with 303 Battery, 99th (London Welsh) H.A.A. Regiment, 1939-1940, transferring to 118 Battery, 75th Anti-Tank Regiment, and serving with them through France, Belgium and Netherlands into Germany, ending the war in Schleswig-Holstein. In May 1945 he transferred to a staff job as PA to the Administrative & Quartering Brigadier in the Schleswig-Holstein District, based in Plön Castle, and was demobilised in 1946. Returning to the Times newspaper, he was their Washington DC correspondent, 1948-1952, and was in Germany in 1953. Woolley and his partner Ian Mylles entered into a civil union in 2007. He died 17 Feb. 2010.
Obituaries include the Times, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/AWAAoaF1YEY, the Independent, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/geoffrey-woolley-times-letters-editor-whose-pages-helped-set-britains-public-agenda-1922896.html, and the Edward Thomas Fellowship newsletter, no. 64 (Aug. 2010).

Arranged into five series: correspondence (L), diaries (D), writings (W), other personal papers (P), and collected material (C).

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Mr Ian Mylles, Geoffrey Woolley's civil partner, per Mr John Byrne; Alfriston; Purchase; October 2015; 99632236202419.

Geoffrey Downing Woolley, born 29 June 1915, was the son of William Downing Woolley of Rhyd Hall, Tredegar, co. Mon., colliery manager, and Gladys Parry his wife. Woolley was educated at Brean House, Clifton College and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he read English and law. He worked on the Monmouthshire Beacon newspaper in 1938, and the Western Mail, before joining the Times of London in May 1939. A member of the London Welsh Territorials, he transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1939, serving first with 303 Battery, 99th (London Welsh) H.A.A. Regiment, 1939-1940, transferring to 118 Battery, 75th Anti-Tank Regiment, and serving with them through France, Belgium and Netherlands into Germany, ending the war in Schleswig-Holstein. In May 1945 he transferred to a staff job as PA to the Administrative & Quartering Brigadier in the Schleswig-Holstein District, based in Plön Castle, and was demobilised in 1946. Returning to the Times newspaper, he was their Washington DC correspondent, 1948-1952, and was in Germany in 1953. Woolley and his partner Ian Mylles entered into a civil union in 2007. He died 17 Feb. 2010.
Obituaries include the Times, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/AWAAoaF1YEY, the Independent, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/geoffrey-woolley-times-letters-editor-whose-pages-helped-set-britains-public-agenda-1922896.html, and the Edward Thomas Fellowship newsletter, no. 64 (Aug. 2010).

The following source was used in the compilation of this description: NLW, Geoffrey Woolley Papers.

Title based on contents of fonds.

July 2017.

Description compiled by Stephen Benham.

Usual copyright laws apply.

A number of school, college athletics, war-time and portrait photographs and other pictures have been transferred to the NLW photographic collection and are now Photograph Book 6088. Papers relating to Woolley's career at the Times newspaper are held by the Times archive.

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