Frank Vincent DOWLING

DOWLING, Frank Vincent

Service Numbers: Not yet discovered
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Not yet discovered
Last Unit: Australian Army Chaplains' Department
Born: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 30 November 1870
Home Town: North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Sydney University, Camden College
Occupation: Congregational Minister
Died: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 25 April 1930, aged 59 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Ipswich General Cemetery, Qld
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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

DEATH OF REV. F. V. DOWLING, M.A.

A very large number of people, whether Congregationalists or not, will hear with sincere regret of the death of Rev. Frank Vincent Dowling, M.A, which occurred yesterday afternoon in St. Martin's Hospital, where he had been brought from Ipswich for special treatment. Mr. Dowling was the minister of the Central Congregational Church, Ipswich, where an official funeral service will be held by the officers and ministers of the denomination tomorrow afternoon, at 2.30, after which the interment will take place at the Ipswich Cemetery. The deceased minister had a very useful and honourable career. He was an Adelaide boy, who received his education at Sydney University, where he graduated M.A., and at Camden College, where he received his theological training. He held pastorates in West Australia, North Sydney, Hobart, and Ipswich, and in the last mentioned place he has ministered for the past five years with conspicuous success. He spent two years with the military forces in France as chaplain, and was one of the most devoted and popular of all the padres sent out from Australia. On his return home at the end of the war he acted as director of the Australian activities of the London Missionary Society, a work in which he was always an intense enthusiast. He held the highest offices in the gift of the denomination to which he belonged In 1925-27 he was President of the Congregational Union of Australia and New Zealand He had also held the office of President of the Congregational Union in West Australia, New South Wales Tasmania, and Queensland Mr Dowling was a preacher of great power and ability, and a man of scholarly mind, He lectured on New Testament introduction in the United Faculty of the Presbyterian Methodist, and Congregational Churches. He leaves a widow, but was without children.

The Brisbane Courier Saturday 26 April 1930 page 23

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