{"id":11821,"date":"2025-12-26T16:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/?p=11821"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:12:29","slug":"obituary-richard-montgomery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/?p=11821","title":{"rendered":"OBITUARY: RICHARD MONTGOMERY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SAD to report the passing of Richard Montgomery, a long time supporter of the Federation from a teenager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was NBF county president in 2006 and 2007 and then went on to become EBF national president in 2010 &#8211; one of only six NBF members to become national president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bowling wise on an individual front, he won the EBF national indoor pairs title with Martyn Dolby in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was a member of the Langtoft club towards the end of his career, but had not been seen on the green for the past few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was old school and determined to uphold the traditions of bowls, from his parents&#8217; time in the sport, especially the dress code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The funeral service will take place at the Peterborough Crematorium on Friday, January 30th at 11.00am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAD to report the passing of Richard Montgomery, a long time supporter of the Federation from a teenager. He was NBF county president in 2006 and 2007 and then went on to become EBF national president in 2010 &#8211; one of only six NBF members to become national president. Bowling wise on an individual front, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/?p=11821\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11848,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821\/revisions\/11848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northantsbowlingfederation.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}