Editing Leonard Woolf (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Virginia and Leonard Woolf, 1912.jpg|thumb|left|Leonard Woolf and his wife [[Virginia Woolf]] in 1912]]
[[File:Nissanka Wijeyeratne with Leonard Woolf in 1960 at Abhayagiri vihāra, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.jpg|thumb|right|Government Agent of Anuradhapura District [[Nissanka Wijeyeratne]] with Leonard Woolf  at [[Abhayagiri vihāra]] in 1960]]

Woolf was born in London in 1880 the third of ten children of Solomon Rees Sidney Woolf (known as Sidney Woolf), a [[barrister]] and [[Queen's Counsel]], and Marie (née de Jongh). His family was [[Jew]]ish. After his father died in 1892, Woolf was sent to board at Arlington House School near [[Brighton]], Sussex. From 1894 to 1899, he attended [[St Paul's School (London)|St Paul's School]], and in 1899 he won a classical scholarship to [[Trinity College, Cambridge]],<ref>{{acad | id =WLF899LS| name=Woolf, Leonard Sidney}}</ref> where he was elected to the [[Cambridge Apostles]]. Other contemporary members included [[Lytton Strachey]], [[John Maynard Keynes]], [[G. E. Moore]], and [[E. M. Forster]]. [[Thoby Stephen]] (his future wife's brother) was friendly with the Apostles, though not a member himself. Woolf was awarded his BA in 1902 but stayed there for another year to study for the Civil Service examinations held then.

In October 1904, Woolf moved to <!-- NOT Sri Lanka in Woolf's lifetime, only from 1972. -->Ceylon (now [[Sri Lanka]]) to become a cadet in the [[Ceylon Civil Service]], in [[Jaffna]] and later [[Kandy]],<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2002/10/02/letters.html |title=Letter |newspaper=Daily News |place=[[Sri Lanka|LK]] |date=2 October 2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110114085346/http://www.dailynews.lk/2002/10/02/letters.html |archive-date=14 January 2011 }}</ref> and by August 1908 was named an [[Government Agent (Sri Lanka)|assistant government agent]] in the [[Southern Province, Sri Lanka|Southern Province]], where he administered the District of [[Hambantota]]. Woolf returned to England in May 1911 for a year's leave. Instead, however, he resigned in early 1912 and that same year married [[Virginia Woolf|Virginia Stephen]].

[[File:17 The Green Richmond, 2017.jpg|thumb|17 The Green, Richmond, 2017]]

Leonard and Virginia Woolf lived at 17 The Green, [[Richmond upon Thames]], starting from October 1914. In early March 1915, the couple moved to nearby Hogarth House, Paradise Road.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.richmond.gov.uk/services/libraries/branch_libraries/local_studies_collection/local_history_notes/virginia_woolf_and_hogarth_house|title=Virginia Woolf and Hogarth House|website=London Borough of Richmond upon Thames}}</ref>

In 1919, the Woolfs purchased the Round House in Pipe Passage, [[Lewes]], East Sussex. The same year, they discovered [[Monk's House]] in nearby [[Rodmell]], which both she and Leonard favoured because of its orchard and garden. She then bought Monk's House and sold the Round House.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bloggingwoolf.org/2009/05/03/virginias-round-house-in-lewes-up-for-sale/|title=Virginia's Round House in Lewes up for sale|date=4 May 2009|website=Blogging Woolf}}</ref>

Together, Leonard and Virginia Woolf became influential in the [[Bloomsbury Group]], which also included various other former Apostles.

In December 1917, Woolf became one of the co-founders of the [[1917 Club]], which met in [[Gerrard Street, London|Gerrard Street]], [[Soho]].