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Rupert Ellis Brown, Mayor of Durban, wrote, in a foreword to "Siedle Saga" (Ref. 1) "Eminent citizen; doyen of Durban’s men of affairs; distinguished figure in the shipping, mercantile and industrial interests of our City and Province, Mr Siedle is something more than even these phrases suggest, for I think we might search the annals of Natal in vain for an individual who has been of greater service, of more solid worth, to the community than he. Very largely to his efforts do we owe the development of the artistic and musical amenities of the City of Durban ....his wife, Mrs Mary Siedle, who became Councillor and eventually Deputy Mayor, rendering her term of office historic by the foundation of the Durban Children’s Hospital.....Because Mr Siedle’s autobiography deals with his family as well as himself, and tells us something of their notable contributions to art and music, and not least to sport, the book has been most happily entitled “Siedle Saga”. .... It may well rank as a sequel or addendum to the late George Russell’s “Old Durban”.(Refs 3, 4).".
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