Robert Stevens, in ‘William Paul Dowling: artist, artist-photographer and photographer’ in our November 2020 issue, and using information provided by Irish genealogist Dr Paul MacCotter, suggested that Dowling may have possibly been the ‘William Dowling’ baptised 26 December 1822 at St Mary’s Roman Catholic Pro-Cathedral in Dublin. Accordingly, we gave William Dowling’s dates as circa 1822–1877. Robert also suggested that he was possibly the ‘William Dowling’ educated by the Carmelite Fathers at Clondalkin.
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