Dick Bernard

Richard Dick Bernard, born on 22 June 1917 and died on 23 February 2012 at the age of 94, was a Scottish international lawn bowler who won a gold medal at the world championships. He was the Scottish national champion in 1970. At the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing he won a gold medal in the team event, the Leonard Trophy, and a silver medal in the singles. He also represented Scotland at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada, where he played in the fours with Doug Copland, John Fleming and Willie Adrain. By trade he was a mining engineer. He had been a county billiards player before switching to bowls in 1948, so his bowling career began when he was already thirty-one and ran for decades.