Information: Kenworthy Schofield, author of books about international dance.

Dr. Robert Kenworthy Schofield (1901-1960) first became involved in English folk music and folk dance during the Peace Day celebrations of 1918, at the end of the First World War (1914-1918).

At Cambridge University he joined the local branch of the English Folk Dance Society (EFDS) and became a founder member of "The Travelling Morrice." It was on Morris tours in the Cotswold that he met some of the surviving traditional dancers and musicians.

He maintained a close interest in folk music and contributed to the knowledge of English Morris and Sword Dances.

Later he was one of those responsible for the formation of "The Morris Ring."

Outside his music Dr. Schofield was a physicist who, after leaving Cambridge, worked at the Rothamsted Research Station in St. Albans. He was the author of a number of scientific papers.

Dr. Schofield, after a life devoted to the physical-chemistry of soil, held the Readership in Agriculture at Oxford University at the time of his death on June 8, 1960.