Ron Buchan
# Ron Buchan

Maurice Ronald Buchan MBE (6 December 1907 – 30 January 2003) was a New Zealand international lawn bowler.

## Bowls career

He competed in the first World Bowls Championship in Kyeemagh, New South Wales, Australia in 1966 and won a gold medal in the fours with Norm Lash, Gordon Jolly and Bill O'Neill at the event.

He won the 1964 and 1965 singles title and the 1957 fours title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Tui Park Bowls Club.

## Honours and awards

In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, Buchan was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to bowling. In 2013, he was an inaugural inductee into the New Zealand Bowls Hall of Fame.

## Death

Buchan died in Hamilton in 2003.

