Frank Livingstone (bowls) explained

Frank Livingstone
Birth Date:1 August 1886
Birth Place:New Zealand
Death Place:Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation:Farmer
Sport:Lawn bowls
Club:Onehunga BC
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Frank Livingstone (1 August 1886 – 17 August 1966) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player.[1]

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Profile. Bowls Tawa.
  2. Web site: Frank Livingstone . 2016 . New Zealand Olympic Committee . 4 August 2016.
  3. Web site: Cemetery records . Auckland Council . 4 August 2016.
  4. Web site: Bowls legends honoured at inaugural Hall of Fame celebration . 2013 . Bowls New Zealand . 4 August 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160822153835/http://www.bowlsnz.co.nz/Category?Action=View&Category_id=2178 . 22 August 2016 . dmy-all .
  5. Book: Bolsover, Godfrey. Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. 1959. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).