Billy Dillicar
{{short description|NZ lawn bowls player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Billy Dillicar
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| full_name = William Wood Dillicar
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|06|21|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Hamilton, New Zealand
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1962|07|28|1881|06|21|df=y}}
| death_place = Hamilton, New Zealand
| spouse = {{marriage|1. Ida May Francis|1913|1925|end=div.}}
{{marriage|2. Marjorie Evelyn Arey|1935|1953|end=d.}}
| relatives = Harold Turbott (nephew)
Harry Turbott (great-nephew)
| occupation = Grocer
| country = New Zealand
| sport = Lawn bowls
| club = Whitiora Bowling Club, Hamilton
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William Wood Dillicar (21 June 1881 – 28 July 1962) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player who competed for his country at the 1934 British Empire Games.
==Early life and family==
Born on 21 June 1881, Dillicar was the son of Richard and Mary Ann Dillicar who had settled in Hamilton the previous year. On 24 March 1913, he married Ida May Francis at the Congregational Church, Palmerston North, but they divorced in 1925.{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MT19130325.2.17 | title=Weddings: Dillicar–Francis | date=25 March 1913 | work=Manawatu Times | accessdate=4 June 2018 | page=4}}{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19250613.2.151 | title=Decrees at Hamilton | date=13 June 1925 | work=New Zealand Herald | accessdate=4 June 2018 | page=12}} Dillicar went on to marry Marjorie Evelyn Arey, the daughter of bookseller William Ewbank Arey and sister-in-law of Roderick Braithwaite, in Auckland on 20 June 1935.{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19350713.2.2.3 | title=Marriages | date=13 July 1935 | work=New Zealand Herald | accessdate=4 June 2018 | page=1}}{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH19351008.2.144 | title=Obituary: Mr. William E. Arey | date=8 October 1935 | work=New Zealand Herald | accessdate=4 June 2018 | page=12}}
Dillicar's sister, Alice, was the mother of Harold Turbott.{{DNZB|title=Harold Bertram Turbott|first= Derek A.|last= Dow|id=5t21|accessdate=8 June 2011}}
Lawn bowls
A member of the Whitiora Bowling Club,{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19350521.2.43.2 | title=Bowling: the Whitiora club | date=21 May 1935 | work=New Zealand Herald | accessdate=4 June 2018 | page=9}} Dillicar was selected to represent New Zealand in the men's fours at the 1934 British Empire Games in London, alongside three bowlers from Auckland's Carlton Bowling Club: namely Harold Grocott, George Pollard, and George Carter (skip).{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19340308.2.89 | title=Empire Games team: rink leaves this evening | date=8 March 1934 | work=Auckland Star | accessdate=4 June 2018 | page=8}} At the Games, they won four of their nine round-robin matches to finish in fifth place.{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19340925.2.26 | title=Empire bowlers: success of England | date=25 September 1934 | work=New Zealand Herald | accessdate=4 June 2018 | page=6}}
Other activities
With his brother, Dillicar established the Hamilton grocers' firm of Dillicar Brothers.{{cite web |url=http://www.hamilton.govt.nz/our-services/planningguidanceandresourceconsents/publicly-notified-applications/Documents/Church%20-%20Submitters%20Evidence%20-%20Attachment%203.pdf |title=A few of the Hamilton Methodists: research summary for St Paul's Methodist Church |year=2017 |first=Lyn |last=Williams |access-date=4 June 2018}} For many years, Dillicar was the bellringer at St Paul's Methodist church in Hamilton. He also served as a member of the Hamilton Borough Council from 1931 to 1945, when he resigned due to poor health.{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19450411.2.20 |title=Another vacancy |date=11 April 1945 |work=Waikato Times |volume=196 |issue=22582 |page=2 |access-date=16 January 2024 |via=PapersPast}}
Death
Dillicar died on 28 July 1962, and he was buried at Hamilton West Cemetery.{{cite web |url=http://www.hamilton.govt.nz/our-services/do-it-online/cemetery-search/Pages/default.aspx?surname=dillicar&forename=william |title=Cemetery search: William Dillicar |date= |publisher=Hamilton City Council |accessdate=4 June 2018}} He had been predeceased by his second wife, Marjorie, in 1953.{{cite web |url=http://www.hamilton.govt.nz/our-services/do-it-online/cemetery-search/Pages/default.aspx?surname=dillicar&forename=marjorie |title=Cemetery search: Marjorie Dillicar |date= |publisher=Hamilton City Council |accessdate=4 June 2018}}
References
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External links
- [https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19340914.2.70.2 Photograph of Billy Dillicar and other members of the New Zealand lawn bowls team at the 1934 British Empire Games in London, Northern Advocate, 14 September 1934, p. 10]
{{1934 New Zealand British Empire Games team}}
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Category:Bowls players at the 1934 British Empire Games
Category:Burials at Hamilton West Cemetery
Category:Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand
Category:Hamilton City Councillors
Category:New Zealand businesspeople in retailing
Category:New Zealand male bowls players