Hubert Huddleston

Major-General Sir Hubert Jervoise Huddleston GCMG GBE CB DSO MC (20 January 1880&mdash;2 October 1950) was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.

Military career
Educated at Felsted School and Bedford School, Huddleston was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1898 and then served in the Second Boer War.

He also served in World War I and then became General Officer Commanding Sudan in 1924. He was appointed Commander 14th Infantry Brigade in 1930 and then joined Eastern Command in India in 1934. He became Commander for the Baluchistan District in Western Command of India in 1935. He was appointed Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and was then briefly General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District from April to July 1940 before being appointed Governor General of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan later that year. He retired from that post in the face of considerable local criticism in 1947.