Dowding (surname)
Dowding is an English surname[1] of Old English origin.[2] Notable people with this surname include the following:
- Alan Dowding (1929–2023), Australian cricketer and schoolteacher
- Bruce Dowding, Australian spy for Britain
- Geoffrey Dowding, typographer, author of Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type
- Gordon Dowding (1918-2003), Canadian politician
- Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Royal Air Force commander during World War II
- Keith Dowding, professor of political science at the London School of Economics
- Keith Dowding (activist), Australian Presbyterian minister
- Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
- Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding, wife of Hugh Dowding; English animal rights campaigner
- Peter Dowding, former Australian politician and premier of Western Australia
References
[edit]- ^ Browne, W.A.F.; Reaney, P.H.; Wilson, R.M.; Scull, A. (1991). A Dictionary of English Surnames. Tavistock classics in the history of psychiatry. Routledge. p. 959. ISBN 978-0-415-05737-0. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ Surname Database: Dowding, Retrieved 31 January 2021
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