George Wright | |
Nationality: | British (English) |
Birth Date: | 28 October 1893 |
Birth Place: | Norwich |
Death Place: | Southampton |
Occupation: | Cinema Proprietor |
Sport: | Lawn bowls |
Club: | Southern Railway BC, Eastleigh |
George William Arthur Wright (1893–1949) was an English bowls player who competed in the 1930 British Empire Games and 1938 British Empire Games.[1] [2]
At the 1930 British Empire Games he won the gold medal in the pairs event with Tommy Hills.[3] [4] The pair repeated the success four years later at the 1934 British Empire Games.
He was the 1928 singles National Champion.[5] [6]
He was a cinema proprietor at the Variety Theatre, in Eastleigh, by trade and married Jessie Mary Parker, they lived in Upper Bassett, Southampton.[7]