Walter Gowers birth registered in Wigan district, was a professional rugby league and association football football player of the 1920s, "30s and "40s, playing representative level rugby league for Great Britain, and Lancashire, and at club level for Platt Lane ARLFC, Rochdale Hornets, and Saint Helens, as a fullback, id est (that is) number 1, and playing club level association football for Preston North End, as a Full-back.
Career
International honours County honours Career records Walter Gowers" marriage to Mary East. Prescott was registered during January→March 1929 in Chorley district. Walter Gowers was the great-grandfather of the Middlesex cricketer John Simpson (Ken Gowers" grandson).