John Orr (bowls, born 1870)

John Orr was a Scottish international lawn bowls player born in 1870, whose date of death is not recorded in the article describing him. He belonged to the Whitehouse and Grange Bowls Club of Edinburgh and represented Scotland at the 1930 British Empire Games, the first edition of the multi-sport event now known as the Commonwealth Games. In the rinks, which is the fours event, he won the bronze medal alongside David Fraser, William Campbell and the Canadian Tom Chambers, who joined the team after the death of the original member John Kennedy. Away from the green, Orr was a doctor by trade and lived in Park Terrace in Edinburgh. His story is typical of the early Empire Games bowls medallists, amateur club players who were called up to national teams on the strength of local success.