Percy Watson
Personal information
NationalityNorthern Ireland Northern Ireland
Born1894
Diedbefore 1990
Sport
ClubCavehill
Medal record
Representing Northern Ireland Northern Ireland
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 1934 Londonfours
Gold medal – first place 1954 Vancouverpairs

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

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.[2]

Twenty years later he won a gold medal in the pairs at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, with William Rosbotham.[3]

He also competed at the 1958 and 1962 Commonwealth Games and won the 1933 and 1938 Irish National Bowls Championships singles.[4][5]

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.[6]

Personal life

He was a director of a linen manufacturers by trade and lived in Bedford Street, Belfast.[7] He was married to Margaret who died in 1982.[8]

References

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