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Robert Woof

English academic (1931-2005) · United Kingdom · On the map · Died at 74

Robert Samuel Woof 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.

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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Dove Cottage is known as the centre for British Romanticism movement, having been the home of William Wordsworth from 1799 to 1808.

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United Kingdom
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1931 to 2005 · aged 74