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Robert Dowling (teacher)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ7343622 ↗
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Sir Robert Dowling (born 1940) is a British schoolteacher and headmaster in the city of Birmingham, England.

He is known for preventing secondary school George Dixon Academy from closing, and was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2002 Birthday Honours, "For services to Special Needs Education".

In 2005, he was praised by OFSTED for his role in dealing with issues of sex and morality in his school.

He was Headmaster of St George's School, Edgbaston, Birmingham, subsequently becoming Chairman of the school's board of trustees.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Dowling (teacher)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.