Heroes

This is a statue of one of my heroes, but can you name him?

Comments

[Mark]

Shot in the dark: Eric Liddell?

[That Hideous Man]

Looks like Liddell to me, but then again I don't know what he actually looked like - only as he was portrayed in the film....

I had a good friend (who used to live in the house I now own) who sadly died a couple of years ago. He knew Eric Liddell from the Japanese internment camps in China where my friend spent some of his early years and Liddell spent his last.

[lynn]

It has to be what Mark said, given what you said to me as I entered the courtyard of New College :-)

[Wood Street Girl]

I don't know who it is but I do know what the Edinburgh Fund is!!! Have I had a chance to tell you about the case for giving to your alma mater? ;)

[Graham]

It better be Eric Liddell. Do I get extra points for saying that I used to stay with one of his contemporaries in China?

Either that or the guy who aerates your compost. (Ow! that stings!)

[Graham]

Seems like That Hideous Man (hopefully an anagram and not some form of curse) and I have something in common. But my former landlord has been dead for nearly twenty years now, so I don't think it's the same person.

[Graham]

Wood street girl - can the alma mater give to the moda-rata?

[brodie]

Thanks for all the comments, and yes it is Eric Liddell.

[That Hideous Man]

Graham, my friend who died a couple of years ago, was in those internment camps with his whole family. His Dad, Jim, died about 20 years ago in Perth.

Are we talking about the same people?

[Graham]

THM,
Yes, I spent perhaps the best year of my life so far living with James Cameron Scott, known to us all as "Mr Scott". I was about 20 then and he was in his eighties. He was one of these guys I want to be when I grow up.
I asked him what the camps and the Japanese guards were like and he said: "We were treated very fairly. But we were civilians."
We lived a quiet existence - no tv, just the radio (Scotland), and I could look at the mountains from my window. What a house! Completely full of stuff: I'm very glad I didn't have to tidy it after he died.

I'm sorry to hear about your friend (David?), but I didn't spend many weekends in Perth, so I didn't see much of the family. It's funny to think the old man would be over 100 now...