Robert Colquhoun (bowls)
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Nationality | English | |||||||||||||
Born | Rochester, Kent | 15 November 1882|||||||||||||
Died | 28 June 1970[1] Bromley, Greater London | (aged 87)|||||||||||||
Occupation | Coal Merchant | |||||||||||||
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Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||||
Club | Bromley BC (outdoors) Crystal Palace (indoors) | |||||||||||||
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Robert George Colquhoun (1882-1970), was an English bowls player who competed in the 1930 British Empire Games.[2]
Bowls career
He was the champion of Bromley, Kent and England in 1929[3] and was an English international from 1929-1933.[4]
At the 1930 British Empire Games he won the gold medal in the singles event.[5][6]
He was the 1929 singles National Champion.[7]
Personal life
He was a retired Army Officer [4] and coal merchant by trade. He married Nellie Maud Sands, who joined him in Canada during the Games.[8]
References
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ """Bowls." Times [London, England] 30 June 1930". The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ a b Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
- ^ ""The Empire Games." Times [London, England] 25 Aug. 1930". The Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- ^ "Past Records". Bowls England.
- ^ "UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 2 Sep 1930 Southampton". Ancestry.co.uk.
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- English male bowls players
- Bowls players at the 1930 British Empire Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- 1882 births
- 1970 deaths