Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, first Baron Dowding (1882–1970) by Vandyk, c. 1931 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Vincent Orange
Dowding, Hugh Caswall Tremenheere, first Baron Dowding (1882–1970), air force officer, was born in Moffat, Dumfriesshire, on 24 April 1882, eldest of the four children of Arthur John Caswall Dowding (1855?–1932), founder and headmaster of St Ninian's preparatory school in Moffat, and his wife, ...