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.