Born in Melbourne to Edward and Elizabeth Downward, he was educated at Prahran and Mornington before working on his father's Balnarring sheep farm.
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He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Mornington in 1894, serving until 1929; he was Minister for Water Supply and Agriculture (1908–09), Minister for Mines, Forests and Public Health (1917–18), and Minister for Immigration (1924–27).
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