Alexander Templeton

Alexander Adamson Templeton was a Scottish lawn bowler, born in 1874 and died in 1951. He belonged to the Kilmarnock Bowls Club and represented Scotland at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia, now known as the Commonwealth Games, where he played the pairs discipline alongside James McAlpine. The pair finished fifth in their group, with one victory over England. In January 1937 Scotland chose him for a tour of the United States that included a test match in St Petersburg, and after the 1938 Games he took part in a Great Britain tour of Florida in early 1939. At the time of the Games he was a retired grain merchant living in Kilmarnock. The outbreak of the Second World War ended his international bowls career.