Herbert Morton

Morton lived at 109 Glaisnock Street in Cumnock and was a cinema director by trade.^[1] He ran the Cumnock Picture House.^[2]

By 1953 he owned two cinemas in Old Cumnock and Auchinleck^[3] and he was the director of the Ayrshire Bowling Association.^[4]

He was a member of the Lugar Works Bowling and Social Club.^[5] and represented the Scottish team^[6] at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada,^[7] where he participated in the fours event,^[8] with Finlay McIver, George Budge and John Carswell, finishing in tenth place.^[9]