Kenneth Coulson

Kenneth Walter Oxenford Coulson (born 1910) is a former English international lawn bowler.

Kenneth Coulson
Personal information
NationalityEnglish
Born3 July 1910
Croydon, Surrey
Sport
SportLawn bowls
ClubCroydon BC

Bowls career

Coulson became the first British singles champion after winning the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1959, when bowling for England and the Croydon Bowls Club.[1] [2] He qualified for the event by virtue of winning the English singles crown the previous year.[3] He was a motor car salesman by trade and was first capped by England in 1955.[4]

gollark: We aren't running difference engines or something.
gollark: I don't think your definition of "mechanical" is useful or one anyone else uses.
gollark: It isn't mechanical because no atoms actually move when it operates.
gollark: (Other than electrons, which do not count)
gollark: It's a switch-type thing which physically exists, but there aren't moving parts.

References

  1. "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council.
  2. Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
  3. "Past Records". Bowls England.
  4. Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
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