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Marianna Woolley's Biography

My father, Bertram Hopkinson and my mother Mariana decided to have a baker’s dozen of boys. They started with two girls. Pause for thought. Then on May 17th a wet Sunday, I am told – I arrived Lina Marianna: after me there were four more girls – and that was the last of the baker’s dozen of boys.

My father was killed in a flying accident at the end of August 1918.

I intended to be an engineer – indeed I was very good at maths - but instead decided I would learn the flute and be a musician. A lot of trouble with my mother who wanted me to be a nursery governess and look after her. But I was obstinate and went to the Royal Academy of Music in London for three years and then the Hochshule fur Musik in Berlin for two years. Came home to be married in 1933 to Russell Woolley then prospective Headmaster of Scarborough College later in life ordained, and spent the rest of my life having my own way! And bringing up my own seven children and the children of people billeted on us. I acquired lots of glorious grand children and right now I collect great grandchildren as other people collect stamps.