Hilda Hamilton

Hilda Hamilton is a former international lawn and indoor bowler from Northern Ireland who competed at the Commonwealth Games. A member of the Belfast Bowls Club, she represented the combined Ireland team at international level and later bowled for the Saintfield Bowls Club. She won the singles at the 1983 Irish National Bowls Championships and went on to win five more national titles, in the triples in 1985, 1987 and 1989 and in the fours in 1984 and 1985. At the British Isles Bowls Championships she won the fours title in 1985 and 1986 and the triples in 1988. Hamilton represented Northern Ireland at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, bowling in the fours with Kathleen Megrath, Nan Allely and Maureen Mallon. At the 1990 British Isles Championships she and Eileen Bell had to concede their matches because of a ban on the third Irish bowler, Kathleen Megrath.