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William Springthorpe Dowel (1837 – 25 November 1905) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born at Hammersmith in
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to stonemason David Dowel and Elizabeth Springthorpe. The family moved to
New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ...
around 1841. Dowel was farming at Tamworth by 1860, and around 1863 he married Elizabeth Lloyd, with whom he had three children. In 1887 he was elected to the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...
as the member for Tamworth; a
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, he served until his defeat in 1894. He then moved to
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, where he became a mining surveyor and unsuccessfully contested the state seat of Herberton. He died at Herberton in 1905.


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  {{DEFAULTSORT:Dowel, William 1837 births 1905 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Protectionist Party politicians 19th-century Australian politicians