{{Short description|English bowls player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = | name = James Edney | image = | image_size = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.--> | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = {{birth date|1870|06|26|df=y}} | birth_place = Dibden, England | death_date = {{dda|1951|||1870|06|26|df=y}} | death_place = Southampton, England | occupation = Wholesale Grocer | sport = Lawn bowls | club = Atherley BC, Southampton | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's Lawn bowls}} {{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }} {{MedalCompetition|British Empire Games}} {{MedalGold| 1930 Hamilton|Fours}} }}
'''James Edney''' (1870-1951), was an English bowls player who competed in the 1930 British Empire Games.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/75JZV3|title="The Empire Games." Times, 23 Aug. 1930, p. 4|newspaper=The Times |date=23 August 1930 |page=4 |publisher=Times Digital Archives|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Bolsover|first=Godfrey|title=Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls|year=1959|publisher=Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn)}}</ref>
== Bowls career == At the 1930 British Empire Games he won the gold medal in the rinks (fours) event with Ernie Gudgeon, James Frith and Albert Hough.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/commonwealth/bowls.htm|title=COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS|publisher=GRB Athletics}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001934/19300829/252/0012 |title=English team success at Emire Games |work=Rugby Advertiser |date=29 August 1930 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=26 August 2024}}</ref>
He was the 1932 fours (rinks) National Champion bowling for Atherley BC, Southampton.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bowlsengland.com/about-us/past-records|title=Past Records|publisher=Bowls England|access-date=1 April 2019|archive-date=27 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327221853/https://www.bowlsengland.com/about-us/past-records|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000513/19320810/005/0003 |title=Bath Club's Great Fight in Rinks Final |work=Western Daily Press |date=10 August 1932 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2023}}</ref>
== Personal life == He was a wholesale grocer by trade and lived in Southampton. He married Edith Catherine Edis, who accompanied him to Hamilton in 1930.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk|title=UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 2 Sep 1930 Southampton|publisher=Ancestry.co.uk}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Edney, James}} Category:English male bowls players Category:Bowls players at the 1930 British Empire Games Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Category:1870 births Category:1951 deaths Category:Medallists at the 1930 British Empire Games Category:People from New Forest District Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists in lawn bowls