Author talk:Percy Enfield Dowson
Identification
[edit]Little to go on - will have been a personal connection of Osler. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:52, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
Sources
[edit]- Births
Check of all "Dowson P*" births to 1895 shows only the one P. E. initialled name.
- Probate — Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England
1935, D. p.155
DOWSON Percy Enfield of the Ridge Sauncey-avenue Harpenden Hertfordshire died 16 June 1934 at Moorcroft Hillingdon Middlesex Probate London 21 June to Maud Surtees Dowson widow. Effects £9349 6s. 4d. Resworn £9323 8s.
Census
[edit]- 1911 — age 37, born Werneth, Cheshire, Assistant School Master (with wife, married, 3 years)
- 1901 — age 27, research student (physics), born Geo Cross Hyde, living with parents in Hyde, Werneth, Cheshire. Father Henry E & Lucy Dowson, Unitarian Minister,
- 1891 — age 17, student, otherwise as above
- 1881 — age 7, otherwise as abvove
Research
[edit]Research shows that Henry E Dowson married Lucy Osler
Marriages Dec 1866
DOWSON Henry E Birmingham 6d 322
OSLER Lucy Birmingham 6d 322
Lucy Osler is the daughter of Abraham Follett Osler. To also note that PE Dowson's younger brother was Aubrey Isler Dowson.
So the relationship is that P.E. Dowson is the grandson ofOsler and the article was presumably written with information provided by his mother, uncles and aunts. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:39, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Oxford
[edit]This mention in the continuation of Alumni Oxonienses gives date of birth 24 July 1873, father, Rugby School, Trinity College, Oxford. Charles Matthews (talk) 14:42, 29 July 2016 (UTC)