Glyn Bosisto

Glyn de Villiers Bosisto was an Australian international lawn bowler, born on 15 February 1899 and died on 16 December 1990. The English Wikipedia article read for this entry says he learned the game from his father at the Prospect Bowls Club in Adelaide, later became club champion in Melbourne and Sydney, and won the Australian National Bowls Championships singles title four years running from 1949, plus two fours titles as skip. He represented Australia, New South Wales and Victoria 256 times and played the singles for Australia at the 1954 and 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. A bank manager by career, he was appointed MBE in 1977, inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 and wrote two books on the game.