William Alexander Wooler (1813–91)

Landowner, colliery-owner, and agriculturalist. Of Halliwell House, Heighington, and Sadberge Hall, Darlington, Durham. Started the conservative newspaper, the North-Eastern Independent, 1879. Founder of Darlington Conservative Association. Member of the Darlington Rural Sanitary Authority. Instrumental in founding the South Durham and North Yorkshire Chamber of Agriculture.

Sources

North Eastern Daily Gazette, 5 May 1891

North Star, 5 May 1891

Northern Echo, 5 May 1891

Post Office directory of the county of Durham 1873.

Volumes

6,9,10,11,13,16