Background
He was born to Maurice Dowley and Nora Corbett in 1788, Ballyknock, outside Carrick-on-Suir, Company Waterford.
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Philip Dowley
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French In 1812 entered Maynooth as a student for his native diocese of Dean Dowley became their leader. In 1840 French Dowley and two others made their novitiate in Paris. They set up a school in Ushers Quay in Dublin, but also a congregation house in Phibsboro, and Saint Vincent"s Castleknock College.
Dowley became its first Provincial.
He acted as president of the seminary in Castleknock from its foundation, and stayed in the provincial residence at the college. He died in Castleknock on the 31st of January 1864 and was succeeded by Fr McNamara.
