Draft:Thomas Dowding

French-British Inventor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sir Thomas Dowding (French: [[tɔ.ma dɔ.diŋ]; 23 April 1816 – 14 September 1883) was a French-British chef who is most know for inventing the wire Whisk.[1] He owned the "La Savoie", a bakery in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.[2]

Born in France, Dowding moved to the United Kingdom in the 1830s to study Carpentry. He left school at 17 and became an apprentice at a bakery in Bristol.[3] He received a Knighthood (UK) after helping stop a large fire in Southampton. He subsequently moved to Paris in 1839[4], where he married Maria Floquet and had two children.

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