Irene Molyneux

Emily Irene Molyneux, born Emily Irene Drew, lived from 1922 to 2019 and was an international lawn bowls competitor for England. At the 1981 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Toronto she won double gold, in the fours with Eileen Fletcher, Mavis Steele, Betty Stubbings and Gloria Thomas and in the team event, the Taylor Trophy, together with a bronze medal in the pairs. She won seven national championship titles in the pairs, two wood singles, triples and fours between 1974 and 1996, and the 1977 British Isles Bowls Championships pairs title with Margaret Lockwood. Her husband Jim was President of the Oxford City and County Bowls Club in 1976.