# James Edney

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{{Short description|English bowls player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2024}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
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| name             = James Edney
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| nationality      = British (English)
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1870|06|26|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [Dibden](/source/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](/source/Bowls)}}
{{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[British Empire Games](/source/Commonwealth_Games)}}
{{MedalGold| [1930 Hamilton](/source/1930_British_Empire_Games)|[Fours](/source/Lawn_bowls_at_the_1930_British_Empire_Games)}}
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'''James Edney''' (1870-1951), was an English [bowls](/source/bowls) player who competed in the [1930 British Empire Games](/source/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](/source/1930_British_Empire_Games) he won the gold medal in the rinks (fours) event with [Ernie Gudgeon](/source/Ernie_Gudgeon), [James Frith](/source/James_Frith_(bowls)) and [Albert Hough](/source/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](/source/Bowls_England_National_Championships_(men's_fours)) 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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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

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