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Dr. Robert Samuel Woof (20 April 1931 in Lancaster – 7 November 2005 in Newcastle upon Tyne) was an English scholar, most famous for having been the first Director of the Wordsworth Trust and Museums Director of the Wordsworth Museum at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Lake District, Cumbria. Dove Cottage is known as the centre for British Romanticism movement, having been the home of William Wordsworth from 1799–1808. The actress Emily Woof is his daughter. ==Biography== Robert Samuel Woof was the youngest of three children; their father was bailiff of Home Farm, part of the Royal Albert Institution, Lancaster Early years: attended Scotforth School and Lancaster Royal Grammar School 1949 on a cycling tour: first visit to Dove Cottage 1953: graduation from Pembroke College, Oxford, where he had studied with a scholarship 1958: married Pamela Moore (two sons, two daughters) 1958–1961: doctorate with Goldsmith Travelling Fellowship as a lecturer at University of Toronto, PhD thesis on 'The Literary Relations of Wordsworth and Coleridge 1795–1803' 1961–1962: Lord Adams of Ennerdale Fellow 1962–1971: University of Newcastle upon Tyne Lecturer 1971–1992: Reader in English Literature at University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1983–1984: Leverhulme Fellow 1974–1989: Honorary Keeper of collections of books, manuscripts and paintings at Dove Cottage 1978–1995: Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of Dove Cottage 1982–1988: Vice-Chairman, Drama Panel, Arts Council 1985–1986: Acting chairman, Drama Panel, Arts Council 1983–1984: Vice-Chairman, Literature Panel 1984–1988: Chairman, Literature Panel 1989–2005: Director, Wordsworth Trust and Wordsworth museum 1993–2000: Chairman, English Touring Theatre 1998: awarded an Order of the British Empire: CBE (Commander of the British Empire) 2000: fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Woof (scholar)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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