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{{short description|English cricketer and British Army officer}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = Peter Malcolm Dowson
| birth_date = 30 March 1915
| birth_place = [[Breamore]], [[Hampshire]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2004|6|25|1915|3|30|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Somerset]], England
| nickname =
| family =
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm [[Fast bowling|fast-medium]]
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1937/38–1938/39
| club2 = [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]]
| year2 = 1937/38
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 5
| runs1 = 155
| bat avg1 = 15.50
| 100s/50s1 = –/1
| top score1 = 50
| deliveries1 = 674
| wickets1 = 9
| bowl avg1 = 35.11
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = 3/74
| catches/stumpings1 = 3/–
| date = 5 June
| year = 2022
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28204.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Peter Malcolm Dowson''' {{postnominal|MC}} (30 March 1915 – 25 June 2004) was an English [[cricket]]er and [[British Indian Army]] officer.

Dowson was born in March 1915 at [[Breamore|Breamore, Hampshire]]. He was educated at [[Rugby School]],<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |title=South African Who's Who|first=Kenneth MacLeay|last=Donaldson|date=1958|publisher=Ken Donaldson|page=210|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk5RAQAAIAAJ|language=en}}</ref> from where he went to [[British India]]. Dowson played [[first-class cricket]] in India, making his debut for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Cricket Club of India]] at [[Brabourne Stadium|Bombay]] in December 1937. Over the following eleven months, he played four further first-class matches; three for the Europeans, and one for [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]] in the [[Ranji Trophy]] against [[Nawanagar cricket team|Nawanagar]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13338/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Peter Dowson|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-06-05|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In five first-class matches, Dowson scored 155 runs at an [[batting average (cricket)|average]] of 15.50, with a highest score of 50.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13338/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Peter Dowson|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-06-05|url-access=subscription}}</ref> With his right-arm [[Fast bowling|fast-medium bowling]], he took 9 wickets with best figures of 3 for 74.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13338/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Peter Dowson|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-06-05|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Dowson served in the [[British Army]] during the [[Second World War]], being commissioned into the [[Royal Artillery]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]] from an [[Officers' Training Corps]] unit in June 1940.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34875|date=14 June 1940|page=3686|supp=y}}</ref> Following the end of the war, at which point he was a temporary [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]], he was awarded the [[Military Cross]] for gallantry and distinguished service during the [[Burma Campaign]];<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37595|date=4 June 1946|page=2737|supp=y}}</ref> he was additionally [[mentioned in dispatches]] in May 1946 for his part in that campaign.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37558|date=7 May 1946|page=2210|supp=y}}</ref> After the war, Dowson emigrated to South Africa where was employed by [[Shell plc|Shell]] as an assistant general manager in 1958.<ref name="BOOK"/> He later returned to England, where he died in [[Somerset]] in June 2004.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=28204}}

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