The Woodforde family includes Samuel Woodford (1636-1700), Canon of Winchester, poet and divine; Robert Woodforde (1675-1762); James Woodforde (1740-1803), clergyman and diarist; and Anna Maria Woodforde (1757-1830). Details for Samuel and James are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Papers of the Woodforde family, consisting of:

• Papers of Samuel Woodford, 1662-1695, including his diary, 1663-5
• Papers of Robert Woodforde, 1697-1791, including interleaved and annotated volumes of a printed Bible and The book of common prayer (London, 1683); and a notebook containing a catalogue of books, with prices, in Robert Woodforde's hand and copies by Anna Maria Woodforde of letters from her to members of her family, 1780-91
• Papers of James Woodforde, 1758-1826, including diaries, 1758-1802; and sermons, 1764-1826
• Papers of Anna Maria Woodforde, 1800-30, including accounts, 1807-19; collections of verse; and an inventory of her goods, 1830
• Miscellaneous papers of the Woodforde family, 1733-19th century

The papers were acquired by the Library, 1950-63.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 42715-845.

Extensive selections from the diary of James Woodforde were printed in The diary of a country parson, ed. James Beresford (5 vols., London, 1924-31), and Woodforde at Oxford 1759-76, ed. W.N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley (Oxford Historical Society, n.s. 21, Oxford, 1969).

Bible

Diaries

Woodforde | Anna Maria | 1757-1830

Woodforde | James | 1740-1803 | Clergyman Diarist

Woodforde | Robert | 1675-1762

Woodforde | Samuel | 1636-1700 | poet and divine

Woodforde | family | Ansford