Percy Watson (bowls)
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| Nationality |  Northern Ireland | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1894 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | before 1990 | ||||||||||||||
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| Club | Cavehill | ||||||||||||||
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Percy Thomson Watson (1894 – ?), was a Northern Ireland international lawn bowler.[1][2]
Bowls career
[edit]He represented Ireland in four Commonwealth games. He won a silver medal in the fours at the 1934 British Empire Games in London.[3]
Twenty years later he won a gold medal in the pairs at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, with William Rosbotham.[4]
He also competed at the 1958 and 1962 Commonwealth Games and won the 1933 and 1938 Irish National Bowls Championships singles.[5][6]
In addition to his two National singles titles he also won two National pairs titles in 1926 and 1930 bowling for the Cavehill Bowls Club.[7]
Personal life
[edit]He was a director of a linen manufacturers by trade and lived in Bedford Street, Belfast.[8] He was married to Margaret who died in 1982.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "British Players win and lose on opening day at Empire Games". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 31 July 1954. Retrieved 28 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics.
- ^ "profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ "IBA Singles winners". Irish Bowls Association.
- ^ Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
- ^ Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
- ^ Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
- ^ "Deaths". Belfast Telegraph. 25 August 1982. p. 2. Retrieved 9 April 2021 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
- 1894 births
- Bowls players at the 1934 British Empire Games
- Bowls players at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Northern Ireland
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Northern Ireland
- Male lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland
- Medallists at the 1934 British Empire Games
- Medallists at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games