F.C. [possibly Francis Cardew] Woodforde

Career Academic / Writer / Natural Historian / Teacher

Biography Headmaster of Market Drayton Grammar School. This failed and he took up natural history. He was related to Parson James Woodforde [qv] the famous diarist. He is listed in the 1901 census as Francis C. Woodforde aged 54 born in Taunton, Somerset and living in Market Drayton, Shropshire as a 'Grammar School Head Master'. He volunteered in the Department of Entymology at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History around the 1920s [see OUMNH, Annual Reports, 1928: 2 and 1929: 2] [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 07/03/2007]

Biography References http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/cgi-bin/acwww25u/wbi10_en/allegro.pl / http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/products/journals/suppmat/SEN/SEN271/SEN271_AppendixS1.doc / Parson Woodforde Society / http://www.mabrayne.supanet.com/parson_woodforde_society.htm / OUMNH, Annual Reports, 1928: 2 and 1929: 2

County Oxfordshire

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Collected around 1911

Dates active 1846-1928

Donated around 1911

English collections Flint lock pistols, nipple wrench for percussion pistol, and steel wrench

Oxford Uni College Exeter College

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford after 1899 to 1928

English collection size 4