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)