Thomas Smetherham

Thomas Smetherham, also spelt Smetherhem, was a Scottish international lawn bowler who competed at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, the event now called the Commonwealth Games. He was a member of the Cumnock Bowling Club and played in the Cumnock fours rink with John Hampson, George Ferguson and Alexander Hodge. That four won the 1955 McEwan Trophy, which is the Scottish National Bowls Championships, the highest domestic title in the sport in Scotland. Three years later he was picked for the Scottish team at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he played in the fours, again alongside Hampson, Ferguson and Hodge, and the Scottish rink finished in sixth place.