Percy Watson (bowls)
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| Nationality | Northern Irish | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1894 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | before 1990 | ||||||||||||||
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| Club | Cavehill BC | ||||||||||||||
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Percy Thomson Watson (1894 – ?), was a Northern Ireland international lawn bowler.[1][2]
Bowls career
Watson was a member of the Cavehill Bowls Club.[3]
He represented Northern Ireland in four Commonwealth Games. He won a silver medal in the fours at the 1934 British Empire Games in London.[4] After the games he was given a civic reception by the Lord and Mayor and Lady Mayoress at the Belfast City Hall.[5]
Twenty years later he won a gold medal in the pairs event at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, with William Rosbotham.[6][7]
He also competed at the 1958 and 1962 Commonwealth Games and won the 1933 and 1938 Irish National Bowls Championships singles.[8][9]
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.[10]
Personal life
He was a director of a linen manufacturers by trade and lived in Bedford Street, Belfast.[11] He was married to Margaret who died in 1982.[12]
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Bowling Notes". Belfast News-Letter. 18 July 1933. p. 3. Retrieved 25 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics.
- ^ "Ulster Athletes Entertained". Belfast News-Letter. 4 September 1954. p. 3. Retrieved 2 November 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ "Two from Ireland for Canada trip". Belfast Telegraph. 11 January 1954. p. 10. Retrieved 26 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "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.