Eileen Fletcher

Eileen Fletcher, born Eileen King, was an English lawn bowls player who represented England at international level. In 1980 she took part in the qualifying event at the Whitnash Bowls Club that led to selection for the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Toronto. At that championship she won gold in the fours, in a team with Mavis Steele, Betty Stubbings, Gloria Thomas and Irene Molyneux, shared in the team event gold for the Taylor Trophy, and took silver in the triples. Competing under her maiden name she had earlier won the English national singles title in 1973 and the national two wood singles title in 1976, and she was runner-up in the two wood event in 1978. She married Thomas Fletcher in 1976 and was afterwards known by his surname. She died in 2019.