Percy Watson (bowls)

Percy Watson

Personal information
Nationality	Northern Ireland
Born	1894
Died	before 1990
Sport
Club	Cavehill
Medal record Representing Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games 1934 London fours 1954 Vancouver pairs

Percy Thomson Watson (1894 – ?), was a Northern Ireland international lawn bowler.[1][2]

Bowls career

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

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

1. "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
2. "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.
3. "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics.
4. "profile". Bowls tawa.
5. "IBA Singles winners". Irish Bowls Association.
6. Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
7. Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
8. Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
9. "Deaths". Belfast Telegraph. 25 August 1982. p. 2. Retrieved 9 April 2021 – via The British Newspaper Archive.