Gerry Crossey

Patrick Gerard Crossey, known as Gerry, lived from 1910 until April 1989 and was an international lawn bowler from Northern Ireland who competed at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games. He was a member of the Falls Bowling Club of Belfast and in 1954 won the pairs championship of Ireland at the Irish National Bowls Championships with Jimmy Burns. He represented Northern Ireland in the fours at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, playing with Tom Henry, George Best and Jack Webb, and the team finished eighth. He later won four more national titles, in the pairs in 1961 and the fours in 1962, 1968 and 1972, as well as two British Isles Bowls Championships in 1963 and 1969.