Ardal dynodi
Cod cyfeirnod
Teitl
Dyddiad(au)
- [c. 1750]-2010 (Creation)
Lefel y disgrifiad
Fonds
Maint a chyfrwng
0.144 cubic metres (16 small boxes).
Ardal cyd-destun
Enw'r crëwr
Hanes bywgraffyddol
Geoffrey Downing Woolley (born 29 June 1915), was the son of William Downing Woolley of Rhyd Hall, Tredegar, Monmouthshire, 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; he edited the Times's letters page, 1953-1983. Woolley and his partner Ian Mylles entered into a civil union in 2007. He died 17 February 2010.
Hanes archifol
Ffynhonnell
Mr Ian Mylles, Geoffrey Woolley's civil partner, per Mr John Byrne; Alfriston; Purchase; October 2015; 99632236202419.
Ardal cynnwys a strwythur
Natur a chynnwys
Papers of the journalist Geoffrey Woolley, including a group of letters, 1906-1915, from the poet Edward Thomas to W. H. Hudson.
Gwerthuso, dinistrio ac amserlennu
Croniadau
System o drefniant
Arranged into five series: correspondence (L), diaries (D), writings (W), other personal papers (P), and collected material (C).
Ardal amodau mynediad a defnydd
Amodau rheoli mynediad
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
Amodau rheoli atgynhyrchu
Usual copyright laws apply.
Iaith y deunydd
- Saesneg
Sgript o ddeunydd
- Lladin
Nodiadau iaith a sgript
English.
Cyflwr ac anghenion technegol
Cymhorthion chwilio
Ardal deunyddiau perthynol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad y gwreiddiol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad copïau
Unedau o ddisgrifiad cysylltiedig
Ardal nodiadau
Nodiadau
Title based on contents of fonds.
Dynodwr(dynodwyr) eraill
Alma system control number
Pwyntiau mynediad
Pwyntiau mynediad pwnc
Pwyntiau mynediad lleoedd
Pwyntiau mynediad Enw
Pwyntiau mynediad Genre
Ardal rheolaeth disgrifiad
Dynodwr disgrifiad
Dynodwr sefydliad
Rheolau a/neu confensiynau a ddefnyddiwyd
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Statws
Lefel manylder disgrifiad
Dyddiadau creadigaeth adolygiad dilead
July 2017.
Iaith(ieithoedd)
Sgript(iau)
Ffynonellau
The following source was used in the compilation of this description: NLW, Geoffrey Woolley Papers.
Nodyn yr archifydd
Description compiled by Stephen Benham.