[Illustration] An ancient Northern family, said to be of Saxon
descent, originally of Huddleston in Yorkshire, and afterwards of
Millom Castle in this county, from an heiress of that name, where
the elder line flourished till its extinction in 1745. Andrew, a
younger son of John Huddleston of Millom, who lived in the reign of
Henry VIII., married the heiress of Hutton of Hutton-John, and was
the ancestor of the present family.
A younger branch of the Huddlestons were fixed in the county of
Cambridge by a match with the illustrious House of Neville. Sir
William Huddleston having married Isabel, fifth daughter of John,
Marquess of Montecute, became possessed, on the partition of the
Neville estates in 1496, of the manor of Sawston, still the
inheritance of this line of the family.
For Sir John Huddleston, so much trusted by Queen Mary, see Fuller's
Worthies, 1st ed. p. 168.
John Huddleston, the priest instrumental in saving the life of
Charles II, and the same who attended him on his deathbed, was
second son of Andrew Huddleston, of Hutton-John. This family
afterwards became Protestants, and were active promoters of the
Revolution.
For a curious account of Sawston and the Huddlestons, see Gent. Mag.
for 1815, pt. 2. pp. 25 and 120; Lysons's Cambridgeshire, p. 248,
and Cumberland, p. lxxiv. and 107; also Banks's Stemmata Anglicana,
"Barones Rejecti," and the Visitation of Cambridgeshire 1619, fol.
1840, p. 19.
ARMS.--_Gules, fretty argent_. This coat was borne by Sir John de
Hodelestone in the reign of Edward II., Sir Adam the same, with _a
border indented or_, Sir Richard with _a label azure_, Sir Richard,
the nephew, with _a label or_. (Roll of the reign of Edw. II. co.
York.)
Present Representative, W. Huddleston, Esq.
+Gentle.+