Harold Grocott

Harold Grocott (1876 to 1960) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who represented his country at the 1934 British Empire Games in London. Born in the St Pancras district of London, he emigrated to New Zealand with his family as an infant and grew up in Dunedin. He worked as a chemist and later as an optometrist, qualifying as a Fellow in Optometry of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers in 1920 and running a pharmacy and optometry practice in Hamilton before retiring to Auckland in the early 1930s. A member of the Carlton Bowling Club in Auckland, he was selected for the New Zealand men's fours alongside George Pollard, George Carter and Billy Dillicar, and the four won four of their nine round-robin matches to finish fifth. He was also an active Rotarian and died in Auckland in 1960.