Bernard Neal

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.

In 2010, Neal was inducted into the World Croquet Federation Hall of Fame.

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The President's Cup is played as a 8/10 player round-robin and the number indicates the final position achieved.

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)