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Henry Dowling became editor and publisher of the Launceston Advertiser in 1831.

The printing, publishing and stationery business of Henry Dowling was established in Brisbane Street, Launceston, in 1834. Over its nearly twenty year life-span, Dowling's firm was responsible for publishing several newspapers and a number of books, including a pirate edition of Charles Dickens's The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, published in twenty-five parts from August to December 1838, and local works such as John West's The History of Tasmania. Dowling sold his printery in 1853, and the following year the Brisbane Street stationery shop became a drapery business trading as Dowling, Swain & Co.

Isabella J. Mead, 'Dowling, Henry (1810 - 1885)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, Melbourne University Press, 1966, pp 316-317. (sighted online 30/03/2011)