A. C. Woolner

Alfred Cooper Woolner (13 May 1878 – 7 January 1936) was a Sanskrit scholar and professor.

[1] 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.

[2] Punjab University Library's collection of over 8,500 Ancient Sanskrit and Hindi manuscripts is named in his honour.

[4] 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.

Woolner's statue outside Punjab University in Lahore