Eric Liddell (bowls)

Eric John Liddell MBE is an Australian-born Hong Kong international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]

Eric Liddell
MBE

Personal information
Birth name	Eric John Liddell
Born	1925 Victoria, Australia
Medal record Representing Hong Kong Men's lawn bowls Commonwealth Games 1978 Edmonton men's pairs World Outdoor Championships 1972 Worthing men's pairs 1980 Melbourne men's fours

Bowls career

Liddell was born in Victoria, Australia, in 1925. He emigrated to Hong Kong in 1951 and represented Hong Kong at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and competing in six consecutive Commonwealth Games from 1954 until 1978.[2]

He won the gold medal in the pairs with Saco Delgado at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing and eight years later was part of the fours team that won the gold medal at the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne. In between he won the pairs gold once again with Saco Delgado at the 1978 Commonwealth Games.[3]

Awards

In the 1975 New Year Honours, Liddell was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the blind in Hong Kong.[4] He was senior vice president of the Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association.[2]

Personal life

He was a chief assistant engineer by trade for the Hong Kong Telephone Company.[1]

References

1. Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
2. Bell, Harry E. (1976). 3rd World Bowls Championship, South Africa 1976. J.G. Ince.
3. Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
4. "No. 46444". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1975. p. 20.