Fabian Strachan Woodley, MC (19 July 1888 – 8 August 1957) was a British newspaperman, a soldier in the Great War, a schoolmaster, and a poet.
Woodley married Ida Leonora Lees on 20 October 1917 at the Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Apostles, Clifton, whilst serving with the Royal Munster Fusiliers.
[13] Subsequently, Ida Lees married Major Henry Aplin, DSO, TD, on 6 August 1924.
[15] After university, Woodley appeared set for a career in newspapers, joining the staff of the Bristol Times and Mirror, and then moving to a London paper.
[28] After the war, Woodley obtained a Diploma for Journalism (1920, presumably from London University), and worked with his father on the staff of the Somerset County Gazette, at Taunton.
Considered more broadly, Woodley is a Georgian poet, using the term as a description of a poetic style (characterised by romanticism, sentimentality and hedonism), rather than in its strict sense.
The Cheltenham Chronicle observed ‘There is a generous note running throughout—the love and loyalty of a young and ardent soul for his friends—schoolmates, college mates, comrades in the Great War’.
[9] The Exeter and Plymouth Gazette thought that ‘In some of the poems the Greek spirit is dominant, in others that of Faerie, and the poet loves Nature, the Great Mother’.
Fabian Strachan Woodley, of Abbey Hill Hotel, Winchester, .... who died on August 8 last [1957], left £30,445 14s 5d gross, £30,340 11s 2d net value (duty paid £5,753).