Margaret Lockwood (bowls) explained

Margaret Lockwood
Nationality:	British (English)
Birth Date:	29 April 1927^[1]
Birth Place:	Thame, Oxfordshire
Death Date:	18 December 2020 (aged 93)
Sport:	Lawn bowls
Club:	Oxford City & County BC

Margaret E. Lockwood (née Janaway) (29 April 1927 – 18 December 2020) was an international lawn bowls competitor for England.^[2]

Bowls career

In 1977, she won the silver medal in the fours at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing with Joan Sparkes, Joan Hunt and Mabel Darlington and also competed in the triples.^{[3] [4]}

Lockwood won the 1976 pairs title and the 1974^[5] and 1979^[6] triples titles, at the England Women's National Championships when bowling for Oxfordshire, in addition to being runner-up on four more occasions.^{[7] [8]}

In 1989, she was president of the English Women's Indoor Bowling Association.^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Index entry. 14 October 2023. FreeBMD. ONS.
2. Book: Newby, Donald. Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. 1990. Telegraph Publications. 0-330-31664-8.
3. Web site: Profile. Bowls Tawa.
4. News: "Bowls." Times, 30 May 1977, p. 8. The Times . 30 May 1977 . 8 . Times Digital Archives.
5. News: Midland teams soon eliminated . Birmingham Daily Post . 16 August 1974 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription . 17 August 2023.
6. News: Irene bowls in for double . Birmingham Daily Post . 16 August 1979 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription . 17 August 2023.
7. Book: Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard. the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. 1974. Robert Hale and Company. 0-7091-3658-7.
8. Web site: OBITUARY: Oxfordshire bowls star, Irene Molyneux, from Abingdon . 4 July 2019 . Oxford Mail . 14 October 2023.
9. News: Bowling round up . Croydon Advertiser and East Surrey Reporter . 10 March 1989 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription . 14 October 2023.