Frank Livingstone (bowls)
Frank Livingstone (1 August 1886 – 17 August 1966) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player.[1]
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| Born | 1 August 1886 New Zealand | |||||||||||||
| Died | 17 August 1966 (aged 80) Auckland, New Zealand | |||||||||||||
| Occupation | Farmer | |||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Hazel Irene McMaster
(m. 1915) | |||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||||
| Club | Onehunga BC | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bowls career
At the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney he won the men's singles silver medal.[2] Livingstone died on 17 August 1966 and was buried at Waikaraka Cemetery in Onehunga.[3]
In 2013, Livingstone was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.[4]
He won the 1936 & 1952 singles titles, 1949 & 1962 pairs titles and 1940 & 1948 fours titles at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships and also won the Australian National Bowls Championships singles title in 1949 (all when bowling for the Onehunga Bowls Club).[5]
References
- "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- "Frank Livingstone". New Zealand Olympic Committee. 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- "Cemetery records". Auckland Council. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- "Bowls legends honoured at inaugural Hall of Fame celebration". Bowls New Zealand. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
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