Bill Bremner

Charles William Henry Chilcott Bremner, known as Bill Bremner, was a New Zealand lawn bowls player, born in Dunedin on 25 March 1879 and died in Auckland on 4 November 1961. The son of Mary Ann and George Goddard Bremner, he was educated in Dunedin, spent much of his life in Invercargill before moving to Auckland, and worked as a land agent and architect. Representing the West End Bowling Club of Auckland, he won four New Zealand national championship titles, the men's fours in 1924 and 1929 and the men's pairs in 1932 and 1940. At the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney he was the skip of the men's fours team with Ernie Jury, Alec Robertson and Bill Whittaker that won the gold medal. He married Alice Genevieve McLachlan in 1902, and he was buried at Hillsborough Cemetery in Auckland.