Margaret Lockwood (bowls)

Margaret E. Lockwood (née Janaway} (29 April 1927 – 18 December 2020) was an international lawn bowls competitor for England.[2]

Margaret Lockwood
Personal information
NationalityBritish (English)
Born29 April 1927[1]
Thame, Oxfordshire
Died18 December 2020 (aged 93)
Sport
SportLawn bowls
ClubOxford City & County BC
Medal record
Representing  England
World Outdoor Championships
Silver medal – second place 1977 Worthingfours
British Isles Championships
Gold medal – first place1977pairs

Bowls career

In 1977, she won the silver medal in the fours at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing with Joan Sparkes, Joan Hunt and Mabel Darlington and also competed in the triples.[3][4]

Lockwood won the 1976 pairs title and the 1974[5] and 1979[6] triples titles, at the England Women's National Championships when bowling for Oxfordshire, in addition to being runner-up on four more occasions.[7][8]

In 1989, she was president of the English Women's Indoor Bowling Association.[9]

References
  1. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  2. Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
  3. "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
  4. ""Bowls." Times, 30 May 1977, p. 8". Times Digital Archives.
  5. "Midland teams soon eliminated". Birmingham Daily Post. 16 August 1974. Retrieved 17 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. "Irene bowls in for double". Birmingham Daily Post. 16 August 1979. Retrieved 17 August 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
  8. "OBITUARY: Oxfordshire bowls star, Irene Molyneux, from Abingdon". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  9. "Bowling round up". Croydon Advertiser and East Surrey Reporter. 10 March 1989. Retrieved 14 October 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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