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Dr Robert Woof OBE | |
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Born | Robert Samuel Woof 20 April 1931 Lancaster, England |
Died | 7 November 2005 Newcastle upon Tyne, England | (aged 74)
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Scholar |
Children | Emily Woof |
Robert Samuel Woof CBE FRSL (20 April 1931 – 7 November 2005) was an English scholar, most famous for having been the first Director of the Wordsworth Trust, which looks after Dove Cottage and runs the tourist attraction now known as Wordsworth Grasmere in Grasmere, the Lake District, Cumbria. Dove Cottage is known as the centre for British Romanticism movement, having been the home of William Wordsworth from 1799 to 1808.
The actress Emily Woof is his daughter.[citation needed]