David Baldwin

David Charles Baldwin was a New Zealand lawn bowler born in Auckland on 14 December 1921 who died in New Plymouth on 7 July 2012. He worked for 43 years as a civil engineer at the New Plymouth City Council and played cricket, tennis, table tennis and soccer in his youth. Bowling for the Paritutu Bowling Club, he won three New Zealand national titles, the pairs in 1971 and the fours in 1972 and 1974, and he won 16 Taranaki titles. At the 1974 British Commonwealth Games he won the men's fours gold medal with Kerry Clark, Gordon Jolly and John Somerville, and four years later he won the silver medal in the men's fours at the 1978 Commonwealth Games. He was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame in 2013 and entered the Taranaki Sports Hall of Fame in 2018.