Career
A Khan Bahadur, he was one of founders of the University of Dacca. Siddiky was fluent in Bengali, English, Arabic, Persian and Hindustani. Siddiky was an influential social worker in East Bengal, supporting the development of roads, hospitals, dispensaries, water supply, irrigation and orphanages.
Siddiky was born in 1876 into the landlord family of Baliadi hamlet in Gazipur, central Bengal.
He was a descendant of Qutubuddin Koka, one of the early Mughal Viceroys of Bengal. Another son Chowdhury Dabir Ahmed Siddiky was President of the Dhaka Club.
