Walter Denison

Walter Denison (10 November 1870 to 2 October 1954) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who won a gold medal in the men's pairs at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, playing alongside Lance Macey. Born in Auckland, he was a member of the Balmoral Bowling Club there and served as its president from 1925 to 1926. As a young man he was active as a swimmer, rower, wrestler and boxer, and later spent twenty years as a timekeeper for the Auckland Wrestling Association. Outside bowls he was a jeweller who co-founded the firm Kirkman and Denison Jewellers in the 1890s. At the same Games his son Oswald won a bronze medal in the men's rowing eight. He died in Auckland in 1954.