Robert_Colquhoun_(bowls)

Robert Colquhoun (bowls)

Robert Colquhoun (bowls)

English bowls player

Robert George Colquhoun (1882-1970), was an English bowls player who competed in the 1930 British Empire Games.[2]

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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

  1. [1]
    "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  3. [3]
    """Bowls." Times [London, England] 30 June 1930". The Times Digital Archive.
  4. [4]
    Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
  5. [5]
    ""The Empire Games." Times [London, England] 25 Aug. 1930". The Times Digital Archive.
  6. [6]
    "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
  7. [7]
    "Past Records". Bowls England.
  8. [8]
    "UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 2 Sep 1930 Southampton". Ancestry.co.uk.
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