James Muir Dowie
1835/6–89
Corn merchant. Resided in Liverpool. Moved to West Kirby, the Wirral, in 1869, and then to Kinross-shire, Scotland. Married Annie Chambers, daughter of Robert and Anne Kirkwood Chambers. Founding member of the Royal Liverpool Golf Club. Member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Sources
Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/2702/88/18)
‘List of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1876’. Appendix to Report of the 45th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1875)
ODNB s.v. Dowie, Ménie Muriel
Scotland statutory deaths 461/00 0001 (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 3 December 2014)
Steel et al. eds. 1975, s.v. Liverpool GC, Royal
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
