Maurice Boddy - Historian
The domain and hosting for mauriceboddy.org.uk expired late 2023 early 2024, nor long after Maurice's
death. To reconstruct the website would require a lot of work, not only due to its size but also that
it would have to migrated to a current platform. I understand that Maurice's computer and all the
data had been given to his grandson but it probably better that the content be retrieved from archive.org.
The last "snap-shot" of mauriceboddy.org.uk is dated 25th May 2022.
Below I have attempted to recreate the biography of Maurice Boddy from the archive of his website.
The hyperlinks to other pages in this text have not been included as this would be too complex at this
stage. If a full reconstruction were to be attempted the cross-referenced links could be added back as
more pages are recovered.
Images, where they exist, could also be pulled from the archive.
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The Biography:
[BODD701] Maurice George Boddy (born 1932, son of Henry George & Grace Beatrice, see HENRY GEORGE BODDY),
was born at Belle Vue Street, Leeds, but his earliest recollections are at Malmesbury Terrace,
which was his next home. The family was only here for about a year, before moving to Penrith Grove.
He first went to school at Upper Wortley Infants at the age of 5. A year later the family moved to
Wesley Road and later Southfield Mount, and he then attended Armley National School until 1941.
There was a short break at the beginning of the 1939-45 War whilst "evacuated" to Spring Avenue,
Gildersome, to stay with his mother's sister Florence Ada. He then attended Gildersome Church School
for a few weeks. He started at West Leeds High School for Boys on 10th November 1941, in the Junior
department, and progressed to the Sixth Form, which he left on 23rd March 1948. The sequence of classes at
WLHS was: 11/1941 J2; 9/1942 J3; 9/1943 2A; 9/1944 3A; 9/1945 4A; 9/1946 SC1; 9/1947 6B. His School
Certificate (undated, but would be mid-1947) records Passes in English Language, French and Chemistry;
Credit in Art;
Very Good (usually referred to as Distinction) in Mathematics and Physics.
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