Cliff Stroud
Cliff R. Stroud (7 November 1920 – 23 April 2015) was an English international lawn and indoor bowler.
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| Nationality |  England | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 November 1920 Tottenham, London, England, U.K. | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 23 April 2015 (aged 94) | ||||||||||||||
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Bowls career
Stroud started bowling in 1954 for the Trowbridge Westbourne club in Wiltshire (outdoors) and the Christie Miller club (indoors).[1]
He was an England international from 1967 to 1972 and won the gold medal in the fours at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship with Peter Line, Ted Hayward and Norman King.[2] [3]
He also represented England at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in the fours event.[4] [5]
Personal life
He took up bowls aged 12 for the Tottenham Somerford BC. Stroud was a company director and general manager by trade and in 2015.[1] [6]
Stroud died in April 2015 at the age of 94.[7]
References
- "Bowls column: Moonrakers will never forget their England star Cliff Stroud". Somerset Live.
- Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
- "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- Ochyra, Sue (27 May 2015). "Cliff Stroud – 7th November 1915 to 23rd April 2015". Bowls Wiltshire. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
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