Julian Haines

Julian Roy Haines (1944 to 2017) was an English international lawn bowler who also competed at indoor bowls. He bowled for the county of Berkshire and won the National Indoor Pairs title in 1974. His finest moment, according to his English Wikipedia biography, came at the 1984 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Aberdeen, where he won the gold medal in the fours alongside Tony Allcock, John Bell and George Turley. He represented England in the fours at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, and in 1999 he won the national triples title while bowling for Boscombe Cliff. Away from the green he founded a company, Julian Haines Bowls Limited, in 1998, based at the Bournemouth Indoor Bowls Centre, which sells bowls goods and runs forums on aspects of the sport. He died on 7 March 2017.