Tommy Harvey

Thomas Andrew Harvey, known as Tommy, was born in 1933 and is a South African international lawn bowler. He played at the first World Bowls Championship, held at Kyeemagh in New South Wales, Australia in 1966, and won a bronze medal in the triples with Kelvin Lightfoot and Leon Kessel. Six years later at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing he won two bronze medals, one in the singles and one in the pairs with Brian Ellwood, and a silver medal in the team event for the Leonard Trophy. Bowls ran in his family: his father Horace Harvey won the singles title at the 1938 British Empire Games and his grandfather Andrew Harvey competed in the pairs at the 1934 British Empire Games. By trade he was a business partner in sports goods.