See also
| Husband: | Joseph Woolley (1817-1889) | |
| Wife: | Ann Hicks (c. 1822- ) | |
| Children: | Adam Sedgwick Woolley (1847- ) | |
| Annie Mary Woolley (1850-1922) | ||
| Marriage | 14 Jul 1846 | Scarborough, Yorkshire |
| Name: | Joseph Woolley | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | George Woolley (1783-1860) | |
| Mother: | Charlotte Gell (1786- ) | |
| Birth | 27 Jun 1817 | Petersfield, Hampshire |
| Baptism | 8 Aug 1817 (age 0) | Church Of Christ-Independent, Petersfield, Hampshire (IGI) |
| Education | Brompton Grammar School & St Johns Coll, Cambridge | |
| Occupation | 1840 (age 22-23) | Fellow & Tutor of St Johns Coll, Cambridge |
| Census | 1841 (age 23-24) | Clergyman, living with parents |
| Census | 1851 (age 33-34) | Head of nautical school, Portsea, Hants |
| Census | 1861 (age 43-44) | Clergyman & inspector of schools, 2 Vicarage Terr, Kensington |
| Census | 1871 (age 53-54) | 27 Brunswick Gardens, Chelsea |
| Census | 1871 (age 53-54) | Clergyman without cure of souls, director of education for the Admiralty |
| Census | 1881 (age 63-64) | Retired Director of Education for the Navy, Hextable, Sutton At Hone, Kent (visitor) |
| Death fact | 1889 (age 71-72) | 1889 Mar Qtr, Sevenoaks, 2a/391 (aged 71) |
| Death | 24 Mar 1889 (age 71) | Afton House, Mount Harry Road, Sevenoaks, Kent |
| Name: | Ann Hicks | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Robert Hicks ( - ) | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | c. 1822 | Freshwater, Isle of Wight |
| Census | 1891 (age 68-69) | Widow, living on own means, living with daughter Annie & son-in-law Stephen Cosser |
| Name: | Adam Sedgwick Woolley | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Philippine (Sabine) Straus (1861-1942) | |
| Birth | 1847 | West Bradenham, Norfolk |
| Birth fact | 1847 (age 0) | 1847 Sep Qtr, Swaffham, 13/258 |
| Census | 1901 (age 53-54) | Cape Colony Government Surveyor, 28 Montague St, Bloomsbury, Middlesex |
| Name: | Annie Mary Woolley | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | Stephen Augustus Cosser (1849-1926) | |
| Birth | 1850 | Portsea, Hampshire |
| Birth fact | 1850 (age 0) | 1850 Dec Qtr, Portsea Island, 7/181 |
| Census | 1871 (age 20-21) | Living with parents |
| Census | 1891 (age 40-41) | Wife in household |
| Census | 1901 (age 50-51) | Wife in household |
| Death fact | 1922 (age 71-72) | 1922 Mar Qtr, Paddington, 1a/13 (aged 71) |
| Death | 26 Jan 1922 (age 71-72) | 5 Randolph Court, Portsdown Road, Paddington, Middlesex |
A naval architect, in 1848 Joseph Woolley was appointed principal of the Central School of Mathematics and Naval Construction, founded by the Admiralty at Portsmouth Dockyard, and retained this post until the closure of the school in 1853. In 1850 he published The Elements of Descriptive Geometry, intended as an introductory treatise on the application to shipbuilding of descriptive geometry. On leaving his post at Portsmouth, Woolley was appointed Admiralty inspector of schools, and in 1858 he was nominated one of HM inspectors of schools.
In 1860 Woolley played a large part in the foundation of the Institution of Naval Architects. In 1864 the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering was founded, and Woolley was appointed inspector-general and director of studies. He held this post until the school was merged into the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1873.
Woolley also served as Rector of Crostwight, Norfolk, and in 1879 he served as joint Mayor of Kingston-upon-Thames.
Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography