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James Jim Ashman was an England international lawn bowler who competed at the Commonwealth Games. He was born on 2 August 1935 in Pontefract, England, and died in York in April 2006 at the age of 70. He won his first England cap in 1976 and remained an international until 1981, bowling for Holgate Working Men's Club in York. He represented England in the pairs event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada. At county and regional level he was a prolific winner, taking eleven Yorkshire County Championships and three Northern Counties titles between 1975 and 1989.

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1935 1
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was an England international lawn bowler who competed at the Commonwealth Games
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    He won eleven Yorkshire County Championships and three Northern Counties between 1975 and 1989.
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