Jock Thompson
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| Nationality | Scottish / Welsh | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 February 1920 Hawick, Scotland | ||||||||||||||
| Died | February 2000 (aged 80) Glamorgan, Wales | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Rhiwbina BC | ||||||||||||||
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John Dawson Hedley Thompson (16 February 1920 – February 2000) was a Scottish-born Welsh international lawn bowler.
Bowls career
[edit]Introduced to bowls by his father in 1938 and moved to Wales at the end of World War II. Thompson was a Welsh international from 1961 to 1973 and captain from 1966 to 1968.
Thompson bowled and captained Wales in the 1966 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in New South Wales, Australia.[1]
Thompson won the 1965 fours title and 1982 pairs title at the British Isles Bowls Championships and the Welsh National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Rhiwbina Bowls Club.[2]
Personal life and death
[edit]Thompson was a civil servant by trade.
Thompson died in Glamorgan in February 2000, at the age of 80.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Ampol Petroleum Ltd (1966). First World Bowls Championship Pre ISBN. Public Relations Dept, Ampol Petroleum Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
- ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- ^ "John Dawson H Thomson". England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007. Retrieved 3 February 2023.