Bob Whitelaw

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Name: Bob Whitelaw
Birth Name: Robert Pillans Whitelaw
Hometown: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Birthplace: United Kingdom
Died: 1964-09-25 (Age:85)
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 171cm
Reach: 165cm
Pro Boxer: Record


According to his page on the /Watson/McGowan Family Tree created by eat25670 in the Family Tree section of Ancestry.com, one Robert Pillans Whitelaw was born on June 16, 1879 in Heywood Colliery Village, Lanarkshire, Scotland and died on September 25, 1964 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It appears that Whitelaw was living in Australia by the time he was five years old. A number of photographs of Whitelaw, including some which were taken of him when he was a boxer, can be accessed on his page. He married Lilian May Nelson (1890-1994) during 1908 and was the father of nine children.