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Frank Livingstone

Livingstone (right), as skip of the Onehunga four that won the fours title at the 1940 New Zealand national lawn bowls championships
Personal information
Born	(1886-08-01)1 August 1886 New Zealand
Died	17 August 1966(1966-08-17) (aged 80) Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation	Farmer
Spouse	Hazel Irene McMaster ​ ​(m. 1915)​
Sport
Sport	Lawn bowls
Club	Onehunga BC
Medal record Men's lawn bowls Representing  New Zealand Commonwealth Games 1938 Sydney Singles

Frank Livingstone (1 August 1886 – 17 August 1966) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player.

Bowls career

At the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney he won the men's singles silver medal. Livingstone died on 17 August 1966 and was buried at Waikaraka Cemetery in Onehunga.

In 2013, Livingstone was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame.

He won the 1936 & 1952 singles titles, 1949 & 1962 pairs titles and 1940 & 1948 fours titles at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships and also won the Australian National Bowls Championships singles title in 1949 (all when bowling for the Onehunga Bowls Club).

References

1. "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
2. "Frank Livingstone". New Zealand Olympic Committee. 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
3. "Cemetery records". Auckland Council. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
4. "Bowls legends honoured at inaugural Hall of Fame celebration". Bowls New Zealand. 2013. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
5. Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).

• 1886 births
• 1966 deaths
• New Zealand male bowls players
• Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand
• Bowls players at the 1938 British Empire Games
• Burials at Waikaraka Cemetery
• Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
• 19th-century New Zealand people
• 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen
• Medallists at the 1938 British Empire Games