Bob King

Bob King, born Robert King on 4 September 1934 and died in mid-2022, was an Australian international lawn bowler who belonged to the Bomaderry Bowling Club in New South Wales. He won two major national titles, the Australian Pairs in 1985 and the Australian Singles in 1998, and gathered a long list of New South Wales titles that included the singles in 1979, 1980, 1984, 1993 and 1998, the pairs in 1979 and 1980, the State Champion of Champions singles in 1984 and 1994, and the State Open Pairs in 1968. At the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch he won a silver medal in the fours alongside Errol Bungey, Errol Stewart and Keith Poole. He was inducted into the Bowls NSW Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Bowls Australia Hall of Fame in 2015.