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Hall, and his mother, Isabella, daughter and co-heiress of John 
Senhouse, Esq., of Netherhall. He was created a baronet 20th 
May, 1782, and represented his native county in Parliament from 
1768 to 1802—a period of thirty-four years. The present Sir 
Henry Fletcher, of Ashley Park, Surrey, fourth Bart., is his great- 
grandson. 
Having quitted the sea, Captain Huddart took up his residence 
at Highbury-terrace, London, in which he continued to live up to his 
decease. His was not, however, a life of indolence and inactivity. 
He added to his house an observatory and workshop, in which he 
was wont, when not engaged upon his surveys and other affairs, to 
indulge his tastes for Astronomy and Mechanics. 
Between the years 1789 and 1794 he surveyed the western 
coasts and islands of Scotland. This chart comprised all the coasts 
and channels between the Mull of Cantire and Cape Wrath, and 
was dedicated to the British Society of Fisheries. For this chart 
he received the thanks of the Society. In 1790 he made a 
survey of Hasboro’ Gatt. The year following he was elected an 
Elder Brother of the Trinity House, a position he was eminently 
qualified toadorn. By electing him one of the Elder Brethren the 
Trinity Corporation paid him a well-deserved compliment. The 
same year his conspicuous abilities received their due recognition 
from the Fellows of the Royal Society. To be a Fellow of the 
Royal Society is a distinction which many an eminent scientific 
man has coveted in vain, and that the honour of Fellowship should 
have been bestowed upon Captain Huddart, proves clearly the high 
position which he had then gained in the world of Science. 
As an Elder Brother Captain Huddart superintended, amongst 
other maritime works of national importance, the erection of the 
Longships Lighthouse. For his able services in this direction the 
Trinity Corporation, at a General Court, held on the 8th October 
1795, unanimously voted him their thanks. 
As a Fellow of the Royal Society he read an able paper, 
entitled ‘‘ Observations on Horizontal Refractions which affect the 
Appearance of terrestrial Objects, and the Dip, or Depression, of 
the Horizon of the Sea.” This paper, which was read on the 
