William Whittaker (26 December 1883 – 13 August 1980) was a New Zealand

lawn bowls Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which players try to roll their ball (called a bowl) closest to a smaller ball (known as a "jack" or sometimes a "kitty"). The bowls are shaped (biased), so that they follow a curve ...

player.

Bowls career

At the

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he was part of the men's fours team that won the gold medal; with

Bill Bremner Charles William Henry Chilcott Bremner (25 March 1879 – 4 November 1961) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who won a gold medal in the men's fours at the 1938 British Empire Games. He also won four national lawn bowls titles. Biography Bor ...

, Ernie Jury and Alec Robertson. He won the 1940 fours title at the

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when bowling for the Onehunga Bowls Club.

References

1883 births 1980 deaths Sportspeople from Atherton, Greater Manchester English emigrants to New Zealand New Zealand male bowls players Commonwealth Games gold medallists for New Zealand Bowls players at the 1938 British Empire Games Medallists at the 1938 British Empire Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists in lawn bowls {{NewZealand-bowls-bio-stub