Percy Watson (bowls)

Percy Thomson Watson (1894 – ?), was a Northern Ireland international lawn bowler.^[1][2]

Percy Watson

Personal information
Nationality	Northern Ireland
Born	1894
Died	before 1990
Sport
Club	Cavehill
Medal record Representing Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games 1934 London fours 1954 Vancouver pairs

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.^[3]

Twenty years later he won a gold medal in the pairs at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, with William Rosbotham.^[4]

He also competed at the 1958 and 1962 Commonwealth Games and won the 1933 and 1938 Irish National Bowls Championships singles.^[5][6]

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.^[7]

Personal life

He was a director of a linen manufacturers by trade and lived in Bedford Street, Belfast.^[8] He was married to Margaret who died in 1982.^[9]