Eric Liddell
Eric Henry Liddell was a Scottish athlete, rugby union international player, and missionary, who chose between his religious beliefs and competing in an Olympic race.
Eric Liddell, often called the Flying Scotsman after the record breaking locomotive, was bornJanuary 1902, in Tientsin, in north China, the second son of the Rev and Mrs James Dunlop Liddell, who were Scottish missionaries with the London Missionary Society. Liddell went to school in China until the age of five. At the age of six, he and his eightyearold brother Robert were enrolled in Eltham College, a boarding school in south London for the sons of missionaries. Their parents and sister Jenny returned to China. During the boys time at Eltham, their parents, sister and new brother Ernest came home on furlough two or three times and were able to be together as a family, mainly living in Edinburgh.
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