Ernest Huddleston

Captain Sir Ernest Whiteside Huddleston CIE CBE (18 August 1874 – 10 October 1959) was a British military commander who was Deputy Director and officiating Commander of the Royal Indian Marine.[1][2] He was later Shipping Surveyor and Adviser to the High Commissioner for India and ADC to the Viceroy.[3]

Captain

Sir Ernest Whiteside Huddleston

CIE CBE
Born18 August 1874
Murree, Punjab
Died10 October 1959 (aged 85)
Devon, England
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branchRoyal Indian Marine
RankCommander
AwardsCIE
CBE
Stanhope Silver Medal

Early life

Ernest Whiteside Huddleston was born in 1874 at Murree in the Punjab.[4][5][6] Like his brother Willoughby Baynes Huddleston, at the age of 7 he was sent to Bedford Modern School which he attended between 1881 and 1888,[7][8][9] leaving the school at fourteen to join the Merchant Navy.[5][6]

Career
A sketch depicting the wreck of the RIMS Warren Hastings, published by the Dundee Courier on 24 March 1897.

Having joined the Merchant Navy in 1888, Huddleston received his certificate as Second mate of a Foreign Going Ship on 30 May 1895.[10] He then joined the Royal Indian Marine initially serving in the Egyptian Campaign.[2] He took the Officer's course at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich[5][6] and in 1897 was in the troopship, Warren Hastings, when she was wrecked at sea off the coast of Mauritius.[6] For his role in the rescue of those on board, Huddleston was awarded the Royal Humane Society's silver medal for gallantry.[5][6]

Huddleston served in the China Expedition against the Boxer Rising (1901–02).[2] During World War I he served as senior marine transport officer of Bombay.[11] He was promoted to captain in 1918 and was presidency port officer of Madras before being appointed deputy director of the Royal Indian Marine in 1924 and officiating director for some months in 1925.[2]

Huddleston then served in the Indian Civil Service as shipping surveyor and adviser to the High Commissioner for India in London.[2] He was at one point aide-de-camp to the Viceroy, Lord Reading.[5][6]

Huddleston was placed on the retired list of the Royal Navy in 1934 and was knighted in 1939.[12]

Family life
Trevor Huddleston Bust in Bedford, England

On 4 August 1904, Huddleston married Elsie Barlow-Smith; they'd met in Bedford as school children.[9] The first child of the marriage was a daughter, Barbara.[5] Trevor, later Bishop of Johannesburg, was born in Bedford on 13 June 1913.[5] His first wife died in 1931 and in 1932 he married Lorna, daughter of W.W. Box of Hampstead.[2]

Huddleston died on 10 October 1959 in Devon.[13]

References
  1. "Huddleston, Captain Sir Ernest Whiteside, (18 Aug. 1874–10 Oct. 1959), JP; Royal Indian Navy (retd)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U238878. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1.
  2. Obituary in The Times, 12 October 1959
  3. Bedford Modern School of the black & red. worldcat.org. OCLC 16558393. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  4. India, Select Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947
  5. "Trevor Huddleston: A Life". worldcat.org. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  6. Trevor Huddleston : a life. worldcat.org. 1999. ISBN 9780312227098. OCLC 41482203. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  7. Bedford Modern School of the black & red. worldcat.org. OCLC 16558393. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  8. The Harpur Trust, 1552–1973. worldcat.org. OCLC 903515. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  9. "News from the stores: Father Trevor Huddleston, the dauntless Anti-Apartheid Campaigner". thehigginsbedfordcollections.blogspot.co.uk. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  10. UK and Ireland, Masters and Mates certificates, 1850–1927
  11. "Who's Who". ukwhoswho.com. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  12. "Who's Who". ukwhoswho.com. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  13. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858–1966
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