David Pearson

David G Pearson is a retired Scottish international lawn bowler who won a Commonwealth Games medal. He took the silver medal in the fours at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, bowling in a four made up of Alex McIntosh, Norman Pryde, John Slight and himself. The same four had earlier won the fours title at the Scottish National Bowls Championships in 1968, so their Commonwealth Games silver came two years after they were the best fours side in Scotland. Lawn bowls is a precision target sport in which each player rolls biased bowls along a green towards a small white jack, and in the fours format four players per side combine to build the head of bowls over a long match. Pearson is therefore remembered as a medal winning member of one of the strongest Scottish fours teams of the late 1960s.