Ron Buchan | |
Fullname: | Maurice Ronald Buchan |
Birth Date: | 6 December 1907 |
Death Place: | Hamilton, New Zealand |
Country: | New Zealand |
Sport: | Lawn bowls |
Club: | Tui Park Bowling Club |
Maurice Ronald Buchan (6 December 1907 – 30 January 2003) was a New Zealand international lawn bowler.[1]
He competed in the first World Bowls Championship in Kyeemagh, New South Wales, Australia in 1966 [2] and won a gold medal in the fours with Norm Lash, Gordon Jolly and Bill O'Neill at the event.[3]
He won the 1964 and 1965 singles title and the 1957 fours title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Tui Park Bowls Club.[4]
In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Buchan was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to bowling. In 2013, he was an inaugural inductee into the New Zealand Bowls Hall of Fame.[5]
Buchan died in Hamilton in 2003.[6]