Eric Liddell (bowls)

Eric John Liddell, who lived from 10 August 1924 to 28 April 1991, was an Australian-born Hong Kong international lawn and indoor bowler. He was born in Bairnsdale, Victoria, to Edward and Victoria Liddell, served for four and a half years during the Second World War and emigrated to Hong Kong in 1951. He represented Hong Kong at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and went on to compete in six consecutive Commonwealth Games from 1954 until 1978. With Saco Delgado he won the pairs gold medal at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing and again at the 1978 Commonwealth Games, and eight years after Worthing he was part of the fours team that won gold at the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne. After those world championships he retired from bowls and returned to Australia, living on the Gold Coast. By trade he was a chief assistant engineer with the Hong Kong Telephone Company, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1975 New Year Honours for services to the blind in Hong Kong, and he was senior vice president of the Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association. He died in Queensland at the age of 66.