Bernard George Neal (29 March 1922 – 26 March 2016) was a professor of structural engineering at Imperial College London and the winner of the All England croquet championship on 38 occasions.
Croquet Bernard Neal won the Open Championship twice (1972 and 1973) and the Men's Championship in 1967.
Neal represented England and latterly Great Britain in three MacRobertson Shield tournaments, winning on two occasions.
As an administrator, Neal served on the Council of the Croquet Association from 1966 to 2009, serving as Chairman (1972 to 1974), Vice President (1996 to 2004) and President (2004 to 2009).
In 2010, Neal was inducted into the World Croquet Federation Hall of Fame.
Career statistics
Major tournament performance timeline
The President's Cup is played as a 8/10 player round-robin and the number indicates the final position achieved.
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Academic He was elected to the fellowship of The Royal Academy of Engineering in 1980.
Selected publications Structures and the applied scientist. University College of Swansea, Swansea, 1955. The plastic methods of structural analysis. Chapman & Hall, 1956. Structural theorems and their applications. Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1964. (Commonwealth and International Library)
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