Dowding, F. Townley (M)

Surname: Dowding
Forename(s): Frederick Townley
b. 1850. d. 9 September 1880. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet. Pseudonym: F. T. D. Born in Devizes, Wiltshire. Educated at St. John’s College, Oxford. Travelled to Egypt and Palestine. Moved to India. Appointed Professor of English Literature at a college in Chinsurah. Entered the Indian Civil Service. Appointed Principal of a college in Rampore Bauleah. Companion and instructor of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Contributed to The Graphic and other periodicals in Calcutta. Author of Under the Pipal (1873). Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 143; Frederick Townley Dowding, Under the Pipal, Roworth & Co., 1873, pp. iii-xi. (CC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 1
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Sibyl 1872-09 The Dark Blue Poet 13837