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Percy Watson
Personal information
Nationality	Northern Ireland
Born	1894
Died	before 1990
Sport
Club	Cavehill
Medal record
Representing Northern Ireland
Commonwealth Games

Percy Thomson Watson (1894 – ?), was a Northern Ireland international lawn bowler.^[1]^[2]

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.^[3]

Twenty years later he won a gold medal in the pairs at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, with William Rosbotham.^[4]

He also competed at the 1958 and 1962 Commonwealth Games and won the 1933 and 1938 Irish National Bowls Championships singles.^[5]^[6]

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.^[7]

He was a director of a linen manufacturers by trade and lived in Bedford Street, Belfast.^[8] He was married to Margaret who died in 1982.^[9]

^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
^ "British Players win and lose on opening day at Empire Games". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 31 July 1954. Retrieved 28 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics.
^ "profile". Bowls tawa.
^ "IBA Singles winners". Irish Bowls Association.
^ Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
^ Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
^ Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
^ "Deaths". Belfast Telegraph. 25 August 1982. p. 2. Retrieved 9 April 2021 – via The British Newspaper Archive.