# Dowler — The Pickwick Papers character guide

> Dowler in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Dowler, Mr. Dowler, the valorous Dowler

**First appearance:** 0009-viii

## Who they are

A blustering and cowardly military man who travels with the Pickwickians.

## In the story

### [In which Mr. Pickwick thinks he had better go to Bath; and goes accordingly.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxv)

Travels with his wife on the same coach to Bath, introduces Mr. Pickwick to Angelo Cyrus Bantam.

### [Chapter XXXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxvi)

Sits up for his wife, mistakes Mr. Winkle for a romantic rival, and furiously pursues him with a knife.

### [Honourably accounts for Mr. Weller's absence, by describing a soiree to which he was invited and went; also relates how he was entrusted by Mr. Pickwick with a private mission of delicacy and importance.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxvii)

Mentioned as the source of violence that caused Mr. Winkle to flee.

### [How Mr. Winkle, when he stepped out of the frying-pan, walked gently and comfortably into the fire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxviii)

Apologizes to Winkle for his threat, revealing his own cowardice, and reconciles with him.

### [Mr. Samuel Weller, being entrusted with a mission of love, proceeds to execute it; with what success will hereinafter appear.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pickwick_papers_se/chapters/xxxix)

Mentioned as having undertaken to deliver a note from Mr. Pickwick.

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