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British lawn bowler

Joyce Scott Lindores (2 May 1944 – 18 June 2017) was a Scottish international indoor and lawn bowler.

Lindores won the Women’s singles at the 1995 World Indoor Bowls Championship defeating Margaret Johnston in the final.^[3] Three years later she won the pairs gold medal with Margaret Letham at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.^[4] The pair then won the pairs title at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Moama, Australia.^[5]

In 2005 she won the pairs and fours silver medals at the Atlantic Bowls Championships in Bangor, previously she had won a triples bronze in 1997 and pairs gold in 1999.^[6]

She also won the Scottish National Bowls Championships singles title in 1988 and 1997 and the pairs in 1993 bowling for Ettrick Forest.^[7]

Lindores remained in Melbourne after the 2006 Commonwealth Games held there.^[1] She died on 18 June 2017 in Melbourne.^[8][9]