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Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||
Born | Tynemouth, England | 16 December 1924|||||||||||
Died | 4 April 1990 Wellingborough, England | (aged 65)|||||||||||
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Sport | Bowls | |||||||||||
Club | Wellingborough Town BC | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Robert Hastie Stenhouse (1924–1990) was an England international lawn and indoor bowls competitor.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]Stenhouse won the 1963 fours title at the England Men's National Championships when bowling for Wellingborough Town BC.[2]
He captained England at the 1966 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, where he won a bronze medal in the team event (Leonard Trophy).
He represented England in the rinks (fours),[3] at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, with Harold Powell, Norman Hook and Cliff Stroud.[4][5][6]
During the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, he was the England team manager and was also an indoor international from 1968-1972.[2]
Personal life
[edit]He took up bowls with his father in 1947 and was married in 1953.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ a b c Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- ^ "Bowls". Cambridge Daily News. 7 February 1970. Retrieved 14 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "1970 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Edinburgh, 1970 Team". Team England.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.