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{{short description|20th-century vice-chancellor of the University of the Punjab}}
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| name = Alfred Cooper Woolner
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1878|05|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Etruria Hall]], [[Staffordshire]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1936|01|07|1878|05|13|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Lahore]]
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'''Alfred Cooper Woolner''' (13 May 1878 – 7 January 1936) was a [[Sanskrit]] scholar and professor. He served as the vice-chancellor of the [[University of the Punjab]], [[Lahore]] from 1928 to 1936.

==Biography==
[[File:Alfred Woolner's statue in front of Punjab University, Lahore.jpg|thumb|Woolner's statue outside [[University of the Punjab|Punjab University]] in [[Lahore]]|left|upright=0.8]]
Woolner was born on 13 May 1878 at [[Etruria Hall]] in [[Staffordshire]], England.<ref name="Woolner Commemoration Volume">{{cite book |editor-last=Shafi|editor-first=Mohammad|year=1940|title=Woolner Commemoration Volume: In Memory of the Late Dr. A. C. Woolner|url=https://archive.org/details/woolnercommemorationvolume/page/n9/mode/2up|location=Lahore|publisher=Mehar Chand Lachhman Das|oclc=3502975|page=ii–v}}</ref>

Woolner was educated at [[Ipswich School]] and [[Trinity College, Oxford]]. In 1903, at the age of twenty-five Woolner he joined the University of the Punjab as its Registrar and Principal of its Oriental College.<ref name="ReferenceA">Vishva Bandhu, Woolner Indological Series, V.V.R.I Press</ref> From 1928 until 1936 he served as [[Vice-chancellor (education)|Vice Chancellor]].<ref>[http://www.pu.edu.pk/about/default.asp?aid=2 University of the Punjab – Introduction] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213054005/http://www.pu.edu.pk/about/default.asp?aid=2 |date=13 February 2008 }}</ref>

On 17 December 1935, Woolner contracted malaria which, after a week, developed into pneumonia. He was moved to [[Mayo Hospital]], Lahore where he died in the morning of 7 January 1936.<ref name="Woolner Commemoration Volume"/> He was buried in the city's [[Gora Kabristan, Lahore|Gora Kabristan]] on Jail Road. He was survived by his wife Mary Emily Woolner. On his wife's death in 1944 she bequeathed the majority of her estate to the University of the Punjab.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> [[University of the Punjab#Punjab University Library|Punjab University Library]]'s collection of over 8,500 Ancient Sanskrit and Hindi manuscripts is named in his honour.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pulibrary.edu.pk/resources/libCollections.htm |title=Library Collections |access-date=8 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517021729/http://www.pulibrary.edu.pk/resources/libCollections.htm |archive-date=17 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The only remaining intact statue from the [[British Raj]] era in Lahore is that of Dr. Woolner which stands in front of the [[Pharmacy]] Department of Punjab University.<ref>[http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/aug2007-weekly/nos-12-08-2007/enc.htm Encore, NOS, The News International] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080206003820/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/aug2007-weekly/nos-12-08-2007/enc.htm |date=6 February 2008 }}</ref>

==Works==
* AC Woolner was the Founder President of Indian Library Association - ILA ( established in 1933).
* ''Introduction to Prakrit''

==References==
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