Frank Tidswell

[7] Fred Tidswell owned the Coogee Bay Hotel and bought Nugal Hall the Mortimer Lewis designed home in Milford Street Randwick and members of the family lived there until 1903.

[11] Upon graduation, Tidswell occupied a position in the New South Wales Department of Health and then in 1897 was appointed as Demonstrator of Physiology at the University of Sydney[12] and so at a young age he was a principal teacher in a medical subject before the establishment of a chair.

He then set out to determine the quantity of the serum, which he had obtained from the immunised horse, that was required to neutralise this venom – that is, to destroy its effect upon the animal into which he had injected it.

[14] John Ashburton Thompson, as Chief Medical Officer in NSW, appointed Tidswell as Bacteriologist to the fledgling public health department.

The knowledge that infectious diseases could be spread from one human to another by insects and that infection could be derived from animals, brought public health into scientific scrutiny.

The outbreak also led to further improvements being made to the North Head Quarantine Station as the value of segregating infected patients from the populace had been realised.

[4] While the house still stands at 132 Wolseley Road, it has been substantially altered and is now known as Cordoba having been redesigned in a Spanish Revival style by the architects Esplin & Mould.

[18] From the 1930s,[6] the Tidswells lived at their historic 1860s farmhouse, Farnborough on the Illawarra Highway just out of Moss Vale, where they developed another important garden and bred draught horses.