Eric Liddell Memorial Fund

Eric Liddell was a Scottish athlete and missionary. Born in 1902, he shot to prominence following the Paris Olympics of 1924, where he won a gold medal for the 400m and a bronze for the 200m. He didn't compete in his best event, the 100m, because the heats were to be held on a Sunday, and he didn't want to break his Christian principles. Liddell's story was made famous by the 1981 film, 'Chariots of Fire' .

After the Olympics and his graduation from Edinburgh University, Liddell went to work as a missionary in north China in 1925. The mission he was working at was captured by the Japanese army in the course of the Second World War. Liddell was interned in a prisoner of war camp in 1943. He died there in February 1945. He was greatly mourned in Scotland and China.

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