Person    | Male  Born 15/6/1913  Died 20/4/1998

The Right Reverend Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston, CR, KCMG.

Categories: Race Issues, Religion

Countries: South Africa

Bishop and archbishop. Born Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston in Bedford. Ordained in 1937, he became the Bishop of Masai, Tanzania, then the Bishop of Stepney, London, and eventually the second Archbishop of the Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean. He is particularly remembered for his anti-apartheid activism. His book 'Naught for Your Comfort', reflects his experiences in South Africa.

Our colleague, Andrew Behan, has expanded upon this man stating that Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston was born on 15 June 1913, the younger child of Sir Ernest Whiteside Huddleston, CIE, CBE (1874-1959) and Elsie Barlow Huddleston née Smith (1877-1931). His birth was registered in the 3rd quarter of 1913 in the Bedford Registration District, Bedfordshire. His father had been a Captain in H.M. Indian Marines and his sibling was Elsie Barbara Huddleston (1909-1994).

In addition to much information about this man on his Wikipedia page and on our Image Source, he was shown on the 1939 England and Wales Register as a Clerk in Holy Orders, residing at the House of the Resurrection, Stocks Bank Road, Mirfield, Yorkshire (West Riding) and he was listed there on the 1940 electoral registers.

Electoral registers in 1959 and 1960 list him at 8 Holland Park, London, W11 and telephone directories between 1970 and 1977 show him as the Rt. Rev. T. Huddlestone at 400 Commercial Road, London, E1.

In the 31 December 1997 edition of the London Gazette he was shown as The Most Reverend Archbishop Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston and was made an Ordinary Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (KCMG) for services to UK-South African relations.

His death in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, aged 84 years, on 20 April 1998 was registered in the Dewsbury Registration District, West Yorkshire and his ashes were buried in the garden of the Christ the King Anglican Church, 49 Ray Street, Sophiatown, Johannesburg, 2092, South Africa.

He is shown as Archbishop Trevor Huddleston on the Sharpeville Massacre memorial in Windrush Square, Effra Road, London, SW2.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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