Henry Dowling (1810 – 17 September 1885)[1] was a newspaper editor and politician in colonial Tasmania.
[1] Dowling junior was educated at the Free Grammar School, Colchester, and was afterwards apprenticed to the printing business.
[2] In 1830 he emigrated to Van Diemen's Land (later renamed to Tasmania), and was for some time on the staff of the Hobart Town Courier, but in the following year he purchased from John Pascoe Fawkner the Launceston Independent, and changing its name to the Launceston Advertiser, conducted it for some years with much success.
Dowling was always active in public affairs, and was specially prominent in the anti-transportation movement, and in the agitation for railways.
Amongst the works issued from Dowling's press may be mentioned an illustrated edition of the Pickwick Papers and West's History of Tasmania.