A MAN OF PRINCIPLES

A century after his Olympic Games win, we look back at the life of Eric Liddell

STEPHEN ROBERTS

Sprinting to victory at the Paris Olympics 100 years ago on 11 July 1924, the same year a locomotive numbered ‘4472’ took on the name Flying Scotsman, Eric Liddell was one of Scotland’s finest. An Olympic champion, international rugby player, and a Christian missionary who was immortalised in the 1981 Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, it seemed there was little Eric Liddell couldn’t achieve if he put his mind to it. Born in China to Scottish parents, James Dunlop Liddell and Mary née Reddin, Eric was sent to the UK to boarding school in south London from the age of six (1908-20) but he also enjoyed family life in the Scottish capital whenever his parents returned to the UK. Edinburgh was a city that became a true home to Liddell,…

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