Willie McQueen

Willie McQueen, who lived from about 1924 until November 1993, was a Scottish international bowler who played both lawn bowls and indoor bowls. At the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne McQueen won a silver medal in the triples, a silver medal in the fours and a bronze medal in the team event, the Leonard Trophy. McQueen was capped for Scotland outdoors from 1967 until 1989, bowled indoors for the Blantyre Miners' Welfare Indoor Bowling Club, and in 1983 set a Scottish record of 50 indoor caps. David Bryant gave McQueen the nickname Machine McQueen because of a resilience on the greens. By profession McQueen was a foreman, died at home in Dalserf in November 1993, and was inducted posthumously into the Scottish Indoor Bowls Hall of Fame in 2016.