[1] The club was named after Henry George Impey Siddons, the first principal of the college.
Siddons Union Club hosted a number of National and International Politicians, Writers, Nobel Laureates, Players, and Journalists, including the Dalai Lama, Mahatma Gandhi, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Jawahar Lal Nehru.
He invites the sympathy of members of the ancient and flourishing society at Cambridge for the youthful club founded by men who, though different in race, are citizens of the same great empire.
"[5] On 1 January 1888, Sir John Edge, the first Vice Chancellor of the Allahabad University visited the College on the occasion of the anniversary of the Siddons Union Club.
[6] The Siddons Union Club chaired by Theodore Beck had organised a debate on 15 November 1884 over the motion of 'Spread of Female Education in India is to be desired but by home tuition and not by schools and colleges'.