Jock Thompson | |
Nationality: | Scottish / Welsh |
Birth Date: | 1920 2, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Hawick, Scotland |
Death Date: | February 2000 (aged 80) |
Death Place: | Glamorgan, Wales |
Sport: | Lawn bowls |
Club: | Rhiwbina BC |
John Dawson Hedley Thompson (16 February 1920 – February 2000) was a Scottish-born Welsh international lawn bowler.
Introduced to bowls by his father in 1938 and moved to Wales at the end of World War II. Thompson was a Welsh international from 1961 to 1973 and captain from 1966 to 1968.
Thompson bowled and captained Wales in the 1966 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in New South Wales, Australia.[1]
Thompson won the 1965 fours title and 1982 pairs title at the British Isles Bowls Championships and the Welsh National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Rhiwbina Bowls Club.[2]
Thompson was a civil servant by trade.
Thompson died in Glamorgan in February 2000, at the age of 80.[3]