Richard L Williams was a Welsh born Canadian international

lawn bowler Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-gre ...

Bowls career

He won a

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in the pairs at the

1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fi ...

in Vancouver with

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and was the President of the North Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club.

Awards

Both he and Sam Gardiner were inducted into the North Shore Sports Hall of Fame in 1968.

Personal life

He emigrated to Canada at the age of 15.

References

Canadian male bowls players Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Bowls players at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games 1898 births Year of death missing British emigrants to Canada Medallists at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games {{Canada-sport-bio-stub