William James Downes (1805–55)
Army officer. Schoolfellow of CD’s. Left Shrewsbury School and entered Worcester College, Oxford, in 1823. Captain, Eleventh Hussars, at his death.
Alum. Oxon.
Crisp, Frederick Arthur, ed., Fragmenta genealogica ([London]: F. A. Crisp, 1889–[1910]) 13: 101
Prerogative Court of Canterbury will registers (The National Archives: Public Record Office PROB 11/2204)
Shrewsbury School register.