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.
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.
Sir Alec Guinness made his first appearance on the professional stage as a non-speaking junior barrister in this play.
The play was adapted by BBC Television in 1938 and as a film in 1959, starring Olivia de Havilland, Dirk Bogarde, Paul Massie, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Robert Morley.