1. Leonard Sidney Woolf was a British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant.
20 Facts About Leonard Woolf
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Leonard Woolf was born in London in 1880 the third of ten children of Solomon Rees Sidney Leonard Woolf, a barrister and Queen's Counsel, and Marie.
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Leonard Woolf was awarded his BA in 1902 but stayed there for another year to study for the Civil Service examinations held then.
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In October 1904, Leonard Woolf moved to Ceylon to become a cadet in the Ceylon Civil Service, in Jaffna and later Kandy, and by August 1908 was named an assistant government agent in the Southern Province, where he administered the District of Hambantota.
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Leonard Woolf returned to England in May 1911 for a year's leave.
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Leonard and Virginia Woolf lived at 17 The Green, Richmond upon Thames, starting from October 1914.
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Leonard Woolf then bought Monk's House and sold the Round House.
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In December 1917, Leonard Woolf became one of the co-founders of the 1917 Club, which met in Gerrard Street, Soho.
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Leonard Woolf joined the Labour Party and the Fabian Society, and became a regular contributor to the New Statesman.
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Leonard Woolf stood as the Labour candidate for the Combined English Universities in 1922.
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Leonard Woolf continued as the main director of the Press until his death.
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Later, Leonard Woolf fell in love with a married artist, Trekkie Parsons.
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Leonard Woolf edited the international section of the Contemporary Review from 1920 to 1922.
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Leonard Woolf was literary editor of The Nation and Athenaeum from 1923 to 1930, and joint founder and editor of The Political Quarterly from 1931 to 1959, and for a time he served as secretary of the Labour Party's advisory committees on international and colonial questions.
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In 1960, Leonard Woolf revisited Ceylon and was surprised at the warmth of the welcome he received, and even the fact that he was still remembered.
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Leonard Woolf accepted an honorary doctorate from the then-new University of Sussex in 1964 and in 1965 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Leonard Woolf declined the offer of Companion of Honour in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 1966.
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Leonard Woolf 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.
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The tree subsequently blew down and Leonard Woolf's remains have since been marked by a bronze bust.
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Leonard Woolf's papers are held by the University of Sussex at the Falmer campus.