Michael Manweiler

Michael Manweiler (29 September 1885 to 13 July 1968) was a Welsh lawn bowls international who competed at the British Empire Games, the event now known as the Commonwealth Games. Born in Ireland, he moved to Wales just after the turn of the twentieth century and became a member of the Wattstown Bowling Club in Wattstown, in the Rhondda Valley. He was part of the Wattstown quartet that won the 1934 Welsh national title in the rinks, and that win earned him selection for the 1934 British Empire Games in London the following month. There he represented the Welsh team in the fours, or rinks, event alongside Isaac Rees, William Kent and R Williams. By 1938 he was playing his bowls at Ystalyfera and living on Pontardawe Road near Swansea, and his profession was police constable.