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|name = Henry Batten Huddleston
|honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[Volunteer Officers' Decoration|VD]]
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|birth_place = [[Barrackpore]], [[India]]
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|03|7|1864|01|22|df=yes}}
|death_place = [[Hove]], [[England]]
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Lieutenant Colonel '''Henry Batten Huddleston''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[Volunteer Officers' Decoration|VD]] (22 January 1864 – 7 March 1944),<ref name="auto6">Death Notice, ''[[The Times]]'', March 10, 1944, p.1</ref> also known as '''H.B. Huddleston''', was Chief Agent and later a Director of the Burma Railways.<ref name="thegazette.co.uk">[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31131/page/920/data.pdf ''The London Gazette'', 17 January 1919, Issue 31131, p. 920]</ref><ref name="auto7">
{{Lives of WWI |id= 7686381 | name= Henry Batten Huddleston }}</ref><ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bDbnAAAAMAAJ&q=h.b.+huddleston+burma&pg=PA123|title=Indian Engineering|first=Patrick|last=Doyle|date=March 20, 1904|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="auto3">{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph9DAAAAIAAJ&q=h.b.+huddleston+burma+railways|title=The Railway Year Book|first1=George Augustus|last1=Nokes|first2=John Francis|last2=Gairns|date=March 20, 1925|publisher=Railway Publishing Company, Limited|via=Google Books}}</ref> During [[World War I]], Huddleston commanded the Burma Railway Battalion of the [[Indian Defence Force]].<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/huddlestonsbyhud01hudd|title=... (The) Huddlestons by a Huddleston for the Huddlestons|first=George|last=Huddleston|date=March 20, 1928|publisher=Bristol, St. Stephen's Press|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> He was Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor of Burma and Chairman of the Rangoon Port Trust.<ref name="auto4">[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30460/supplement/388/data.pdf ''Supplement to The London Gazette'', 7 January 1918, Issue 30460, p. 388]</ref><ref name="auto5">{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qsw1AQAAMAAJ&q=h.b.+huddleston+burma+railways|title=The Railway Gazette|date=March 20, 1918|publisher=Queen Anne's Chambers|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vt82AQAAMAAJ&q=h.b.+huddleston+burma+railways|title=Annual Report and Accounts|first=Rangoon (India) Port|last=Trust|date=March 20, 1910|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==Life==
Henry Batten Huddleston was born in [[Barrackpore]], [[India]], on 22 January 1864, the son of Graham Egerton Huddleston by his second wife, Amelia Frances Sophia (née Batten).<ref name="auto"/> He was educated at [[Bedford Modern School]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/community/5183/?page=12|title=Community: Bedford Modern School - List of Old Bedford Modernians serving in HM Forces 1914 - 1918. | Lives of the First World War|website=livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk}}</ref>

Huddleston was Chief Agent and later a Director of the Burma Railways.<ref name="auto7"/><ref name="auto2"/><ref name="auto3"/><ref name="thegazette.co.uk"/> During [[World War I]], Huddleston commanded the Burma Railway Battalion of the [[Indian Defence Force]].<ref name="auto"/> He was Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor of Burma and Chairman of the Rangoon Port Trust.<ref name="auto4"/><ref name="auto5"/>

On 27 October 1887, Huddleston married Mary Louise Fraser at Purneah, Bengal.<ref name="auto"/> They had one son, Leslie, who died as an infant, and a daughter, Winifred Evelyn Huddleston.<ref name="auto"/> After his retirement, Huddleston was offered a seat on the London board of the Burma Railways.<ref name="auto"/>

Huddleston's greatest hobby was fishing and he was a member of the [[Flyfishers' Club]].<ref name="auto"/> He died on 7 March 1944.<ref name="auto6"/>

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