Author talk:Percy Enfield Dowson

Identification
Little to go on - will have been a personal connection of Osler. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:52, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Census

 * 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
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 of and the article was presumably written with information provided by his mother, uncles and aunts. — billinghurst  sDrewth  09:39, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Oxford
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)