Mavis Steele

Mavis Mary Steele, who lived from 1928 to 1998, was an England international lawn bowler. She was born in Kenton, Middlesex on 9 September 1928 and worked as a data preparation manager. At the 1973 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Wellington, New Zealand she won double silver, in the singles and in the pairs with Phyllis Derrick. Her finest moment came in 1981 at the World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Toronto, where she won double gold, in the fours with Eileen Fletcher, Betty Stubbings, Gloria Thomas and Irene Molyneux, and in the team event for the Taylor Trophy. She was selected twice for England at the Commonwealth Games, winning a bronze medal in the triples at Brisbane in 1982 and returning in 1990. At home she won eight outdoor national titles between 1961 and 1971, playing outdoors for Sunbury Sports Club and indoors for Egham, and she was appointed MBE in 1983 for services to women's bowls.