Edward Gordon was an Irish international

lawn bowler 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 ...

. representing Ireland both indoor and outdoor over 50 times He won 7 Irish Senior Cup medals, 7 Private Greens Senior League medals, 8 Private Greens Senior Cups with Falls BC With Brendan McBrien he won the British Isles Pairs Championship in 1970 and skipped the Fours to British Isles Championship success in 1974 He was a Past President of the Private Greens Bowling League and the Irish Bowling Association

Bowls career

He won a

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in the fours at the

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with

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, William Tate and

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