Thom's Irish Who's Who/Dowdall, Sir Laurence Charles Edward Downing

DOWDALL, Sir Laurence Charles Edward Downing, Knt. (1912), C.B. (1901), M.A. (T.C.D.). Was Private Secretary to successive Chief Secretaries for Ireland; Head of Administrative Dept., Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, 1901-13; second son of Rev. Launcelot Dowdall, A.M., and Maria, 4th dau of John Downing, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Kandian Provinces: m. 1914, Frances, widow of Lieut.-Col. Henry Stannard, and 2nd dau. of the late Alexander Clotworthv Downing Leckie Edie, of Thornhill, Strabane, Co. Tyrone. Res.: The Grange, Ballyragaett, Co. Kilkenny. Club; University, Dublin.