Edward Maurice Dowson (21 June 1880 – 22 July 1933) was an English

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er for

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and

Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...

. During a

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career which spanned from 1900 until 1913, he played 113 matches as an

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, scoring over 5,000 runs including eight centuries, as well as taking 357 wickets with slow left-arm orthodox

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. He also played for the

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, and toured overseas with various representative teams including Lord Hawke's tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1902–03. His father, also named Edward Dowson, also played for Surrey, and his great-grandson Ed Carpenter played briefly for

Durham MCC University Durham MCC University (previously known as Durham University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a cricket coaching centre based at Durham University in Durham, County Durham, England, and the name under which the university's cricket team plays. ...

. A successful all-rounder, Dowson scored over a thousand runs and 99 wickets in the 1901 season; a thousand runs and 76 wickets the following year, and another thousand runs and 42 wickets in 1903. He also took 80 wickets during a single tour of the West Indies in the winter of 1901–02. His first-class career ended in 1903 with the final match of the 1903 County Championship, however Dowson was invited back by the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1913 to play his final first-class game when the MCC played Cambridge University at

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. Dowson was living at Hele House in Ashburton,

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when he died aged 53.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dowson, Edward Maurice 1880 births 1933 deaths People from Weybridge Cambridge University cricketers Surrey cricketers English cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Gentlemen cricketers People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Royal Pioneer Corps officers Lord Hawke's XI cricketers P. F. Warner's XI cricketers B. J. T. Bosanquet's XI cricketers R. A. Bennett's XI cricketers