Alfred Langford
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Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||
Born | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | August 16, 1873||||||||||||||
Died | March 23, 1970 (aged 96) Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||
Occupation | Merchant | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||
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Alfred Alexander Langford (16 August 1873 – 23 March 1970), was a Canadian international lawn bowls player who competed in the 1934 British Empire Games.[1][2]
Bowls career
Langford was active in helping set up the Canadian Lawn Bowling Association in April 1932. He was the first Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Onatario Association and later became the Life President.[3]
At the 1934 British Empire Games he won the silver medal in the pairs event with William Hutchinson.[4][5][6]
Personal life
He was a merchant by trade. He was resident at the Strand Hotel during the Games along with the most of the other Canadian bowlers and travelled to the event with his wife Lezetta.[7]
References
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn). p. 490.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- ^ Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
- ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- ^ "UK, Outgoing Passenger Lists, 19 July 1934 Southampton Arrivals". Ancestry.co.uk.
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- Medallists at the 1934 British Empire Games