Edward Maurice Dowson (21 June 1880 – 22 July 1933) was an English cricketer for Cambridge University and Surrey.

During a first-class cricket career which spanned from 1900 until 1913, he played 113 matches as an all rounder, scoring over 5,000 runs including eight centuries, as well as taking 357 wickets with slow left-arm orthodox spin bowling.

[3] He also took 80 wickets during a single tour of the West Indies in the winter of 1901–02.

[4] His first-class career ended in 1903 with the final match of the 1903 County Championship, however Dowson was invited back by the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1913 to play his final first-class game when the MCC played Cambridge University at Lord's.

[5] Dowson was living at Hele House in Ashburton, Devon when he died aged 53.