21 Facts About Trevor Huddleston

Trevor Huddleston was the Bishop of Stepney in London before becoming the second Archbishop of the Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean.

Trevor Huddleston was best known for his anti-apartheid activism and his book Naught for Your Comfort.

Huddleston was the son of Ernest Huddleston and was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire, and educated at Lancing College, Christ Church, Oxford, and at Wells Theological College.

Trevor Huddleston joined an Anglican religious order, the Community of the Resurrection, in 1939, taking vows in 1941, having already served for three years as a curate at St Mark's Swindon.

In September 1940 Trevor Huddleston sailed to Cape Town, and in 1943 he went to the Community of the Resurrection mission station at Rosettenville.

Trevor Huddleston was sent there to build on the work of Raymond Raynes, whose monumental efforts there, building three churches, seven schools and three nursery schools catering for over 6,000 children, had proved to be so demanding that the community summoned him back to Mirfield in order to recuperate.

Trevor Huddleston met Huddleston who had been appointed to nurse him while he was in the infirmary.

Trevor Huddleston fought against the apartheid laws, which were increasingly systematised by the Nationalist government which was voted in by the white electorate in 1948, and in 1955 the African National Congress bestowed the rare Isitwalandwe award of honour on him at the famous Freedom Congress in Kliptown.

Trevor Huddleston was particularly concerned about the Nationalist Government's decision to bulldoze Sophiatown and forcibly remove all its inhabitants sixteen miles further away from Johannesburg.

Trevor Huddleston was close to O R Tambo, ANC President during the years of exile, from 1962 to 1990.

Trevor Huddleston's community asked him to return to England in 1955, some say due to the controversy he was attracting in speaking out against apartheid.

However, the Superior at the time, Raymond Raynes, wrote that the decision to recall Trevor Huddleston was made by Raynes himself.

Trevor Huddleston became Bishop of Stepney, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of London.

McGrandle was a part-time chaplain to Trevor Huddleston, and wanted to introduce Trevor Huddleston to a new generation.

Tutu, who as a little boy knew Trevor Huddleston and swears to his innocence, was particularly affronted by the suggestion that Trevor Huddleston was anything other than a protector of children.

On 14 February 1995 he wrote a lengthy letter saying any suggestion of Trevor Huddleston's criminality was outrageous.

Bishop Gerald Ellison, the Bishop of London when Trevor Huddleston was Bishop of Stepney, said that political enemies of Trevor Huddleston were involved.

Trevor Huddleston undoubtedly had many enemies in South Africa and England who wanted to denigrate him, indeed, to destroy him.

Trevor Huddleston continued to campaign against the imprisonment of children in South Africa, and was able to vote as an honorary South African in the first democratic elections on 27 April 1994.

Trevor Huddleston briefly returned to South Africa but found it too difficult with his diabetic condition and increasing frailty, and returned to Mirfield.

Aged 21, Masekela left South Africa for the UK where Trevor Huddleston helped him secure a place at the Guildhall School of Music, and then he went to New York, where he began to craft his signature Afro-jazz style, under both Armstrong and Gillespie.