Ernest Whiteside Huddleston

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

Early life Ernest Whiteside Huddleston was born in 1874 at Murree in the Punjab. 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, leaving the school at fourteen to join the Merchant Navy. He then joined the Royal Indian Marine initially serving in the Egyptian Campaign. 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.

Family life

On 4 August 1904, Huddleston married Elsie Barlow-Smith; they'd met in Bedford as school children.