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Edward Wooll, OBE, QC (31 March 1878 – 20 May 1970) was a British barrister, playwright, and novelist.
The eldest son of the Reverend C. W. Wooll, Vicar of Ditton, Lancashire, Edward Wooll was educated at Liverpool College and New College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in Classical Moderations. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1903. He was one of the first two pupils to join the Liverpool chambers of F. E. Smith, later Earl of Birkenhead.
Wooll served in the Cheshire Yeomanry from 1914 to 1927, retiring as a captain. During the First World War, he served with the Cavalry Corps Headquarters, British Expeditionary Force; for his wartime service, he was mentioned in dispatches twice and was appointed OBE. At the Armistice, he accepted the keys of Cologne from the Mayor, Konrad Adenauer.
He was the Conservative candidate for St Helens in the 1922 general election and Hull Central in the 1923 general election, losing both times. Wooll was Recorder of Carlisle from 1929 to 1963. He was appointed King's Counsel in 1943. For many years, as the senior silk, he was the Leader of the Northern Circuit. He retired from the Bar in October 1965.
Wooll had a career as a playwright and novelist. His most successful play was Libel! which he wrote under the pseudonym "Ward Dorane"
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