Bernard George Neal (29 March 1922 – 26 March 2016) was a professor of

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and the winner of the All England

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championship on 38 occasions.

Croquet

Bernard Neal won the Open Championship twice (1972 and 1973) and the Men's Championship in 1967. Neal represented England and latterly Great Britain in three MacRobertson Shield tournaments, winning on two occasions. As an administrator, Neal served on the Council of the

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from 1966 to 2009, serving as Chairman (1972 to 1974), Vice President (1996 to 2004) and President (2004 to 2009). In 2010, Neal was inducted into the

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Hall of Fame.

Career statistics

Major tournament performance timeline

The President's Cup is played as a 8/10 player round-robin and the number indicates the final position achieved.

Academic

He was elected to the fellowship of The Royal Academy of Engineering in 1980.

Selected publications

*''Structures and the applied scientist''. University College of Swansea, Swansea, 1955. *''The plastic methods of structural analysis''.

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, 1956. *''Structural theorems and their applications''.

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, Oxford, 1964. (Commonwealth and International Library)

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1922 births 2016 deaths Academics of Imperial College London Academics of Swansea University People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Alumni of the University of Cambridge English croquet players British structural engineers English male tennis players British male tennis players Deans of the City and Guilds College 20th-century English sportsmen {{ImperialCollege-stub