Edward Rowsby Woof (18 January 1883 – 31 December 1943) was an English violinist and music educator.
[1] Among his pupils were Sidney Griller, Frederick Grinke, Arthur Kennedy, Felix Kok, Nona Liddell, Peter Mountain, Jean Pougnet, Priaulx Rainier, Rosemary Rapaport, Colin Sauer, David Carl Taylor of the Stratton Quartet and William Waterhouse.
[14] The Rowsby Woof Prize for Royal Academy of Music violin students, founded by his wife in 1944, was awarded annually in the years 1945 to 1963.
The Prize Board listing the awardees was added to the RAM Museum's collection in 2011.
Recipients include Colin Sauer (1945), Beryl Kimber (1949), Clarence Myerscough (1952), Brendan O' Reilly (1956) and John Georgiadis (1959) of the Gabrieli String Quartet, and Roy Malan (1963), founding concertmaster of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.