Dowding (surname)

Dowding is an English surname [1] of Anglo-Saxon origin. [2] Notable people with this surname include the following:

Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Royal Air Force commander during World War II
Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding, wife of Hugh Dowding; English animal rights campaigner
Geoffrey Dowding, typographer, author of Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type
Keith Dowding, professor of political science at the London School of Economics
Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
Peter Dowding, former premier of Western Australia

References

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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