Edward Gordon

Edward Gordon, in full Edward Joseph Gordon, was an Irish international lawn bowler who lived from 1912 to 1992 and competed at the Commonwealth Games. He was a member of the Falls Bowls Club and represented the Northern Irish team at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, winning a bronze medal in the fours with Harold Stevenson, John Higgins and Billy Tate. He represented Ireland more than fifty times indoors and outdoors and won seven Irish Senior Cup medals, seven Private Greens senior league medals and eight Private Greens senior cups with Falls. He won the British Isles Indoors Pairs Championship in 1970 with Brendan McBrien and again in 1974, and was a past president of the Private Greens Bowling League and the Irish Bowling Association.