Background
Siddall was born in Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom in 1840.
Siddall was born in Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom in 1840.
He received a Medical degree at Aberdeen University in 1865 and gained entitlement to use Letters MDCM or "Doctorem Medicinae et Chirurgiae Magistrum".(1)
In 1868 he went to Japan as Medical Officer to the British Legation where under the direction of Doctor William Willis he took control of the hospital at Yokohama, and later Tokyo during the war of 1869-1869. Here he performed pioneering work in hygiene control (2), and taught Japanese surgeons techniques of bandaging and splinting (3). (5)
He practised for a time at Ross on Wye, and retired to Devonshire.
As a cricketer he was a batsman for the Gentlemen of England and among his boasts in old age were that he had played with all the Three Graces and had once smashed the clock at The Oval.
This information is sourced from his BMJ obituary.(2) He was a founding member of the Royal North Devon Golf Club.