Percy Watson (bowls)


Percy Thomson Watson, was a Northern Ireland international lawn bowler.

Bowls career

He represented Ireland in four Commonwealth games. He won a silver medal in the fours at the 1934 British Empire Games in London.
Twenty years later he won a gold medal in the pairs at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, with William Rosbotham.
He also competed at the 1958 and 1962 Commonwealth Games and won the 1933 and 1938 Irish National Bowls Championships singles.
In addition to his two National singles titles he also won two National pairs titles in 1926 and 1930 bowling for the Cavehill Bowls Club.

Personal life

He was a director of a linen manufacturers by trade and lived in Bedford Street, Belfast.