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.
Bibliography
Post Office directory of the county of Durham: The Post Office directory of the county of Durham, and the principal towns and adjacent places in Northumberland, Cumberland & Westmorland. The Post Office directory of Durham and Northumberland. London: Kelly and Co. 1873–1929.
