Tom Henry

Thomas Lyle Henry, who lived from 1908 to 3 March 2003, was an international lawn bowler and badminton player from Northern Ireland who competed at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games. Born in Ballymoney, he won the 1948 Scottish Open badminton doubles with Frank Peard and earned 33 international caps in that sport. After moving to Derry in 1939 he joined Londonderry Bowling Club, was capped by Ireland at bowls in 1948 and won the 1952 Irish National Bowls Championships singles and pairs. He represented Northern Ireland in the fours at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, where the team finished eighth, and he later won three more national titles, the pairs in 1960 and the fours in 1968 and 1972.