Roy Fulton

Roy Fulton

Personal information
Full name	Robert Fulton
Born	(1916-06-14)14 June 1916 Whiteinch, Glasgow, Scotland
Died	29 September 2000(2000-09-29) (aged 84) Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland
Sport
Club	Coleraine BC
Medal record Representing  Ireland World Outdoor Championships 1966 Kyeemagh singles Representing  Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games 1970 Edinburgh singles British Isles Championships 1968 singles 1967 pairs 1968 pairs

Robert Fulton (14 June 1916 – 29 September 2000) was a Scottish international lawn bowler who represented Ireland.^[1][2]

Bowls career

Fulton represented a combined Ireland team at the first World Bowls Championship in Kyeemagh, New South Wales, Australia in 1966 ^[3] and won a bronze medal in the singles at the championship.^[4]

In addition he won a bronze medal at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and represented Northern Ireland at the Lawn Bowls at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and Lawn bowls at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games.^[5]

Fulton was also seven time singles champion at the Irish National Bowls Championships (1956, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1965 1967, 1971) in addition to six pairs (1951, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1973).^[6] He also won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1968.^[7][8]

Personal life and death

Fulton was born in Whiteinch, Glasgow on 14 June 1916, to Robert Fulton Sr. and Mary Fulton (née Hutchinson).^[9] He was a rugby player at Hillhead High School and a Scottish schoolboys billiards international. He took up bowling in 1946 before switching allegiance to Ireland.^[10]

Fulton died in Prestwick, South Ayrshire on 29 September 2000, at the age of 84.^[11]

References

1. "profile". Bowls tawa.
2. "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics.
3. Ampol Petroleum Ltd (1966). First World Bowls Championship Pre ISBN. Public Relations Dept, Ampol Petroleum Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
4. "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
5. "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
6. "IBA Singles winners". Irish Bowls Association.
7. "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council.
8. Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
9. "Robert Fulton". Scotland's People. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
10. Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
11. "Robert Fulton". Scotland's People. Retrieved 8 February 2023.