Kenneth Coulson

Kenneth Walter Oxenford Coulson (1910 to 1987) was an English international lawn bowler who became the first British singles champion. He won the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1959 while bowling for England and the Croydon Bowls Club, having qualified for that event by winning the English singles crown the year before. England had first capped him in 1955. Outside the sport he worked as a motor car salesman. His 1959 win is why he is remembered as the first British singles champion, a title earned after he had already proved himself at national level by taking the English singles crown.