Claude Stephens

Claude Leopold Vernon Stephens (13 May 1905 to 16 January 1988) was a Welsh international lawn bowler who competed at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, now the Commonwealth Games. He lived in Hatherleigh Road, was a member of the Abergavenny Bowling Club and after the war became a newsagent. In 1953 he and Albert Evans won the Welsh National Bowls Championships title, and he made his Welsh international debut in 1954. In 1960 the Abergavenny four of Stephens, Evans, Tom Griffiths and Lynn Probert won the national fours title, and the same four won the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1961. At the 1962 Games in Perth, Australia, they finished fifth in the fours.