What is "dowding"

Dowding is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:

• Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Royal Air Force commander during World War II
• Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding, wife of Hugh Dowding; English animal rights campaigner
• Geoffrey Dowding, typographer, author of Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type
• Keith Dowding, professor of political science at the London School of Economics
• Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
• Peter Dowding, former premier of Western Australia

Dowding may refer to:

• Dowding (surname)
• Baron Dowding, British peerage created in 1943 for ACM Hugh Dowding (1882–1970)
• Dowding Ministry, ministry of the Government of Western Australia 1988–1990 under Peter Dowding