DOVES, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner in 1611 (tutor, Mr Roger Edwards) (Chapter Muniments 33664).
DOWDESWELL, ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER, youngest son of William Dowdeswell (adm. 1816, qv); b. 9 Jan 1846; adm. (G) 24 Jan 1861; left Aug 1864; of Ripple Hall, Tewkesbury, Gloucs.; JP (1879) Worcestershire, JP Gloucestershire; d. unm. 14 Sep 1897.
DOWDESWELL, BERNARD, son of William Dowdeswell (KS 1670, qv); b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1715; KS 1716; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1720, matr. 23 Jun 1720, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1720 - void 26 Nov 1736 (expiry year of grace as V. Westwell), Tutor 1725-32, Junior Censor 1733-4; BA 1724; MA 1727; Proctor 1735; ordained; Vicar of Westwell, Oxfordshire, from 10 Oct 1735; d. 14 Apr 1746.
DOWDESWELL, CHARLES WILLIAM, son of William Dowdeswell (adm. 1730, qv); b. 8 Jun 1756; adm. 12 Oct 1767; in school list Oct 1771; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1772; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 7 May 1774; d. at Marseilles, France 20 Feb 1776.
DOWDESWELL, CHARLES, son of William Dowdeswell (KS 1670, qv); bapt. Bushley, Worcs. 29 Oct 1683 (IGI); adm.; KS 1700; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1704, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 6 Jul 1704, aged 19; d. 22 Jul 1705.
DOWDESWELL, EDMUND RICHARD, second son of William Dowdeswell (adm. 1816, qv); b. 14 Jan 1845; adm. (G) 27 Jan 1859; left Whitsun 1863; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1863; BA 1868; MA 1873; ordained deacon (Oxford) 1868, priest (Winchester) 1869; Curate, Newbury, Berks., 1868-70; Curate in charge, Bushley, near Tewkesbury, 1870-81, Vicar 1881-98; inherited Pull Court estate on death of his elder brother 1893; Hon. Canon, Worcester 1914; d. unm. 5 Jan 1915.
DOWDESWELL, EDWARD CHRISTOPHER, son of William Dowdeswell (adm. 1730, qv); b. ; adm. 17 Jun 1772; in school list Jul 1779; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Feb 1780, aged 15; BA 1783; MA 1787; BD 1795; DD 1799; Fellow, All Souls Coll. ; ordained; Perpetual Curate, Bushley, Worcs. , 29 May 1791 – 1809; Rector of Stanford Rivers, Essex from 3 Dec 1802; Rector of Langham, Essex 10 Aug 1807-29; Canon of Christ Church from 13 Feb 1808; twice mentioned in extracts from letters of Henry Mordaunt Clavering (qv), Elizabethan xi, 176, 186; d. unm. 1 Aug 1849.
DOWDESWELL, GEORGE EDWARD, youngest son of John Christopher Dowdeswell (qv); b. 10 May 1847; adm. (G) 24 Jan 1861; left Aug 1864; Cornet, 4th Dragoon Guards 22 Jul 1868; Lieut., 28 Oct 1871; d. unm. 28 Jan 1876.
DOWDESWELL, GEORGE, brother of William Dowdeswell (adm. 1730, qv); b. ; adm. (aged 11) Sep 1733; left 1738; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Dec 1738, Canoneer Student 22 Dec 1738 - void 26 Jun 1750, Radcliffe Travelling Fellow 1745; BA 1742; MA 1745; in Italy in Apr 1743; Leyden Univ. 1745; Univ. Coll. Oxford; MB and MD 1757; m. 11 Jul 1760 Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Buckle, Chaceley, Worcs. ; d. 20 May 1773.
DOWDESWELL, JOHN CHRISTOPHER, younger son of John Edmund Dowdeswell (qv); b. 10 Aug 1806; adm. 12 Jun 1816 (Packharness'); left 1822; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 May 1823; BA 1827; MA 1830; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 27 Jan 1832; Oxford Circuit; Recorder of Tewkesbury; m. 29 Aug 1833 Sophy, only dau. of Charles Godfrey Mundy, Burton Hall, near Loughborough, Leics.; d. 18 Sep 1850.