{"id":38427,"date":"2012-07-20T09:33:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T01:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/geoffrey-harold-murphy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:44:23","slug":"geoffrey-harold-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/geoffrey-harold-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Harold Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-38385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Geoff_Murphy-640x915.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Geoff_Murphy-640x915.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Geoff_Murphy-768x1098.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Geoff_Murphy-320x458.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Geoff_Murphy.jpg 1030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 500px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td style=\"width: 100px;\"><strong>Name:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Geoffrey Harold Murphy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><strong>Nationality<\/strong>:<\/td>\n<td>Australia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><strong>Profession:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Gas engineer (General Manager, Engineering &#8211; Hong Kong and China Gas Co 1969-1989)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><strong>Club:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Kowloon Bowling Green Club<br \/>\nUnited Services Recreation Club<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><strong>Family:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Wife &#8211; Marie, children &#8211; Alan, Bruce (deceased) and Philip<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>HKLBA Service:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1977-1978<\/td>\n<td>Honorary Secretary<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1977-1983<\/td>\n<td>Association&#8217;s delegate to International Bowling Board<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1977-1988<\/td>\n<td>Chairman of National Selectors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1979-1982<\/td>\n<td>President<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1979-1982<\/td>\n<td>Chief umpire (umpire badge No. 001)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Hong Kong Team Record:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1978<\/td>\n<td>Commonwealth Games, Edmonton\u00a0(Team Manager)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1980<\/td>\n<td>World Bowls Championship, Frankston (Team Manager)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1981<\/td>\n<td>Mini Games, Brisbane (Team Manager)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1982<\/td>\n<td>Commonwealth Games, Brisbane\u00a0(Team Manager)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Contribution:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1981\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Pioneer the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Honour:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>1983<\/td>\n<td>The third person to be awarded the Association&#8217;s Honorary Life Membership<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Remarks:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Passed away on July 18, 2012 aged 82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Geoffrey Harold Murphy Nationality: Australia Pro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":38430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[582],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-582","article-list-item","animate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bowls.org.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}