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Jock Thompson

Personal information
Nationality	Scottish / Welsh
Born	(1920-02-16)16 February 1920 Hawick, Scotland
Died	February 2000 (aged 80) Glamorgan, Wales
Sport
Sport	Lawn bowls
Club	Rhiwbina BC
Medal record Representing  Wales British Isles Championships 1983 pairs 1966 fours

John Dawson Hedley Thompson (16 February 1920 – February 2000) was a Scottish-born Welsh international lawn bowler.

Bowls career

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.

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.

Personal life and death

Thompson was a civil servant by trade.

Thompson died in Glamorgan in February 2000, at the age of 80.

References

1. Ampol Petroleum Ltd (1966). First World Bowls Championship Pre ISBN. Public Relations Dept, Ampol Petroleum Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
2. Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
3. "John Dawson H Thomson". England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007. Retrieved 3 February 2023.

• 1920 births
• 2000 deaths
• Welsh male bowls players