Jose da Luz

Jose Alberto da Luz (1904 to 1986) was an international lawn bowler who represented Hong Kong. He won a silver medal in the fours at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, playing in a team with Alfred Coates, Robert Gourlay and his own brother Raoul da Luz, which made the result a family affair as well as a national one. Of Portuguese origin, he was born in Hong Kong, where the Portuguese community from nearby Macau had long been established, and later became a citizen of the United States in 1964. His career belongs to the period when lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games was dominated by a few established nations, which makes a medal for a Hong Kong four a notable result for the colony.