Robert Slater

Robert Slater was an English international lawn bowls player of the 1930s who represented England at the 1934 British Empire Games. At those Games he won the gold medal in the rinks, or fours, event, playing alongside Ernie Gudgeon, Percy Tomlinson and Fred Biggin. At home he played for Callenders Bowling Club in Kent, and he was the 1933 and 1934 pairs champion at the English national championships with his partner Billy Buckell, as well as being twice the Kent county champion. His career shows how English club bowls of the interwar years fed directly into the national and imperial team that competed at the early Empire Games, the forerunner of the modern Commonwealth Games.