Name: Dr. Thomas Mayne Reid Waddell LRCS LRCPBorn: 21 March 1882, Tokyo (Japan)*
Died: 19 May 1926, Glossop (England) (age 44)
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Position: Centre-Forward
Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1906); Ulster representative (1906).
Club Career:
* both spells
Biography:
Tom Waddell was the sixth child of the Reverend Hugh Waddell (1840-1901), originally from Glenarm, who was a Presbyterian missionary in Manchuria and Japan. The family returned to Ireland in 1900, living at 19 Cedar Avenue, just yards from Solitude.
Ireland Cap Details:
17-03-1906 Scotland H L 0-1 BC
Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.
Position: Centre-Forward
Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1906); Ulster representative (1906).
Club Career:
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Signed
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Fee
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League
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FA Cup
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Other
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Cliftonville
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Amateur
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Glossop
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06/07
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Feb-07
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-
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6/1
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Cliftonville
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07/08
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Jun-07
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Amateur
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-
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Glossop
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07/08
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Dec-07
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1/0
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1/0
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TOTALS
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£-
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7/1
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1/0
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Biography:
Tom Waddell was the sixth child of the Reverend Hugh Waddell (1840-1901), originally from Glenarm, who was a Presbyterian missionary in Manchuria and Japan. The family returned to Ireland in 1900, living at 19 Cedar Avenue, just yards from Solitude.
A "very dangerous" centre-forward with Cliftonville, where he was also captain from 1904 to 1906, Tom Waddell won his only cap against Scotland in 1906.
1906 also saw Waddell gain his degree and license as a physician. He soon moved to Glossop, England, where he practiced as a surgeon and also played football for the local Second Division club. He was married in 1909 to Ethel Ronaldson (1884/5-1932) at Duncairn Presbyterian Church.
1906 also saw Waddell gain his degree and license as a physician. He soon moved to Glossop, England, where he practiced as a surgeon and also played football for the local Second Division club. He was married in 1909 to Ethel Ronaldson (1884/5-1932) at Duncairn Presbyterian Church.
The couple had three children. Pte. Tom Ronaldson "Ronald" Waddell (1915-1941) is buried in Crete having died aged 25 while serving with the New Zealand 18 Infantry Battalion, while Hugh Mayne Reid Waddell (1911-1983) followed his father in becoming a doctor in Glossop.
In 1926 Dr. Waddell contracted an infection while operating on a child and died at the local Haydock Hospital. He was 44 years-old.
Ireland Cap Details:
17-03-1906 Scotland H L 0-1 BC
Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.
* while no exact location of Waddell's birth has been identified, he spent much of his childhood in the Far-East. An approximation of his siblings are as follows:
- Hugh (c.1877-1907)
- James (c.1878-1892)
- Samuel Waddell (aka "Rutherford Mayne") (1878-1967, Tokyo, Japan) - playwright
- Martin (c.1879-1950)
- Charles (c.1880-1941)
- Thomas Mayne Reid (b.1882, unk)
- Margaret (c.1884-1970, "Tokio, Japan")
- William M. (c.1886-1914, "Belfast, Ireland")
- Rev. George (c.1887-1915, "Tokio, Japan")
- Helen Jane (1889-1965, Tokyo, Japan) - scholar, translator, author
Marriage (Belfast News-Letter 6th Dec 1909)
England & Wales Index of Wills and Probates
Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons / Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians
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