Brian Dowling, was a journalist and Public Relations Consultant. He was educated at Tonbridge and won a scholarship to Christ’s College, Cambridge. He joined the RAF as a Cambridge cadet pilot in 1944.
Following the war, Dowling returned to university, but was rusticated from Christ’s for declaiming Aeschylus from the clock tower at two in the morning. He had achieved a First in Classics in the initial part of his Tripos but left Cambridge with a Third in Moral Sciences. There were, he declared, “only two degrees worth having – an effortless First and an effortless Third, and I got ’em both”.
Brian began as a journalist for Picture Post, working alongside the famous photographer, Bert Hardy. While Hardy captured many evocative images of 1950Brian Dowling, was a journalist and Public Relations Consultant. He was educated at Tonbridge and won a scholarship to Christ’s College, Cambridge. He joined the RAF as a Cambridge cadet pilot in 1944.
Following the war, Dowling returned to university, but was rusticated from Christ’s for declaiming Aeschylus from the clock tower at two in the morning. He had achieved a First in Classics in the initial part of his Tripos but left Cambridge with a Third in Moral Sciences. There were, he declared, “only two degrees worth having – an effortless First and an effortless Third, and I got ’em both”.
Brian began as a journalist for Picture Post, working alongside the famous photographer, Bert Hardy. While Hardy captured many evocative images of 1950s Britain, it was Brian who chose the subjects and locations, including Picture Post's most celebrated Bert Hardy Photograph: “Blackpool Belles”.
Following Picture Post, he became a publicist with the Rank Organisation and a pioneer in the field of public relations. In 1957, he wrote a television documentary series, "The Way We Live", for a subsidiary of the Rank Organisation and Within two years he was head of Rank’s public and press relations department.
On leaving the Rank organisation, Dowling started his own business, becoming one of London's first corporate relations consultants. ...more
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