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- Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, MC, was an Anglican priest and poet. He was nicknamed 'Woodbine Willie' during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes along with spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers. Born in Leeds in 1883, Kennedy was the seventh of nine children born to Jeanette Anketell and William Studdert Kennedy, a vicar in Leeds. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he gained a degree in classics and divinity in 1904. After a year's training, he became a curate in Rugby and then, in 1914, the vicar of St. Pauls, Worcester. On the outbreak of war, Kennedy volunteered as a chaplain to the armed forces on the Western Front, where he gained the nickname 'Woodbine Willie'. In 1917, he won the Military Cross at Messines Ridge after running into no man's land to help the wounded during an attack on the German frontline. He wrote a number of poems about his experiences, and these appeared in the books Rough Rhymes of a Padre (1918), and More Rough Rhymes (1919). After the war, Kennedy was given charge of St. Edmund King and Martyr in Lombard Street, London. Having been converted to Christian socialism and pacifism during the war, he wrote Lies (1919), Democracy and the Dog-Collar (1921) (featuring such chapters as "The Church Is Not a Movement but a Mob," "Capitalism is Nothing But Greed, Grab, and Profit-Mongering," and "So-Called Religious Education Worse than Useless"), Food for the Fed Up (1921), The Wicket Gate (1923), and The Word and the Work (1925). He moved to work for the Industrial Christian Fellowship, for whom he went on speaking tours of Britain. It was on one of these tours that he was taken ill, and died in Liverpool. He is mentioned in the Divine Comedy song "Absent Friends": "Woodbine Willie couldn't sleep until he'd/given every bloke a final smoke/before the killing."
- Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy est un prêtre anglican et un poète britannique né à Leeds le 27 juin 1883 et mort le 8 mars 1929. Il est surnommé « Woodbine Willie » car il accompagnait son aide spirituelle aux blessés de la Première Guerre mondiale de cigarettes de marque Woodbine. Septième des neuf enfants d'un curé de Leeds, William Studdert Kennedy, Geoffrey étudie dans sa ville natale puis à Trinity College à Dublin, dont il est diplômé de lettres classiques et de théologie. D'abord curé de l'église Saint-Paul de Worcester, il s'engage comme aumônier volontaire durant la Première Guerre mondiale. On le surnomme alors « Woodbine Willie », d'après le nom des cigarettes qu'il distribue aux blessés. Il reçoit la Military Cross et écrit de nombreux poèmes sur son expérience de la guerre, réunis dans Rough Rhymes of a Padre (1918) et More Rough Rhymes (1919). Après la guerre, il devient curé de l'église Saint-Edmond roi et martyr à Londres. Représentant du socialisme chrétien, ardent pacifiste, il rédige Lies (1919), Democracy and the Dog-Collar (1921), Food for the Fed Up (1921), The Wicket Gate (1923) et The Word and the Work (1925). Il travaille ensuite pour le Industrial Christian Fellowship pour lequel il donne des conférences : c'est lors d'une tournée qu'il tombe malade et meurt à Liverpool.
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- Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, MC, was an Anglican priest and poet. He was nicknamed 'Woodbine Willie' during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes along with spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers. Born in Leeds in 1883, Kennedy was the seventh of nine children born to Jeanette Anketell and William Studdert Kennedy, a vicar in Leeds. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he gained a degree in classics and divinity in 1904.
- Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy est un prêtre anglican et un poète britannique né à Leeds le 27 juin 1883 et mort le 8 mars 1929. Il est surnommé « Woodbine Willie » car il accompagnait son aide spirituelle aux blessés de la Première Guerre mondiale de cigarettes de marque Woodbine.
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