Mabel Phoebe Darlington (5 December 1916 – 1999) was a Canadian-born international

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 ...

competitor for England.

Bowls career

In 1977 she won the silver medal in the fours at the

1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship The 1977 Women's World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held Beach House Park, Worthing, Beach House Park in Worthing, England, from 21 May to 5 June 1977. Elsie Wilkie successfully defended her singles title which was held in a round robin for ...

Worthing Worthing ( ) is a seaside town and borough in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 113,094 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Br ...

with

Margaret Lockwood Margaret Mary Day Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990), was a British actress. One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, her film appearances included ''The Lady Vanishes'' (1938), '' Night Train to Munich ...

Joan Hunt Joan Hunt is a former international lawn bowls competitor for England. Bowls career In 1977 she won the silver medal in the fours at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing with Joan Sparkes, Margaret Lockwood Margaret M ...

and Joan Sparkes. After taking up bowls in 1951 she won the 1961 national 2 wood singles title at the England Women's National Championships when bowling for Warwickshire. Also won the Leamington Open four times.

References

1916 births 1999 deaths English female bowls players Canadian bowls players Sportspeople from Toronto English people of Canadian descent 20th-century English sportswomen {{UK-bowls-bio-stub