Career
Brian Woledge spent his childhood in Leeds, studying at the Leeds Boys" Modern School and Leeds University. He earned a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1930, writing a dissertation on the medieval French romance L"Atre périlleux. Woledge held lectureships at the University of Hull and the University of Aberdeen before being appointed at the age of 35 to the Fielden Chair of French in University College London, where he headed up the French department until his retirement in 1971.
He was elected to the British Academy in 1989.
Woledge introduced Reading Week and the "conferences" at Missenden Abbey or Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park to integrate new students into the department, and established University College London"s own Bachelor of Arts in French. Brian Woledge married Christine Craven in 1933 (died 1993), who contributed to the English translations in Woledge"s 1961 edition of The Penguin Book of French Verse to the Fifteenth Century.