Cliff Stroud Explained

Cliff Stroud
Nationality:	British (English)
Birth Date:	1920 11, df=yes
Birth Place:	Tottenham, London, England

Cliff R. Stroud (7 November 1920 – 23 April 2015) was an English international lawn and indoor bowler.

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^[4] in the fours event.^{[5] [6]}

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] [7]}

Stroud died in April 2015 at the age of 94.^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bowls column: Moonrakers will never forget their England star Cliff Stroud. Somerset Live.
2. Book: Newby, Donald. Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. 1987. Telegraph Publications. 0-86367-220-5.
3. Web site: Profile. Bowls Tawa.
4. News: Bowls . Cambridge Daily News . 7 February 1970 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription . 14 August 2024.
5. Web site: COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS. GRB Athletics.
6. Web site: Athletes and Results. Commonwealth Games Federation.
7. Book: Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard. the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. 1974. Robert Hale and Company. 0-7091-3658-7.
8. Web site: Cliff Stroud – 7th November 1915 to 23rd April 2015 . Bowls Wiltshire . 27 May 2015 . Sue . Ochyra . 6 September 2021 .