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request of the magistrates and council of the city of Edinburgh. 
He had the honour to see his suggestions adopted, and to be the 
recipient from that body of a resolution conveyed to him by the 
Lord Provost, thanking him for his valuable advice and assist- 
ance. In January, 1803, the thanks of the Director-General 
of Inland Navigation were voted to him for the “consider- 
ation and application” he gave to the improvement of the 
harbour of Dublin. In May, 1808, he visited Holyhead, and 
reported upon the proper site for the erection of a lighthouse, 
which resulted in the building of a lighthouse on the South 
Stack. The same year he went to Ireland with the celebrated 
engineer, the late Mr. Rennie, to advise the Government as 
to the expediency of making a harbour at Howth to accommodate 
packets. He also, in conjunction with the late Mr. Mylne and 
Mr. Rennie, at the request of the Navy Board, reported upon the 
improvement of the dockyard at Woolwich ; and at the request of 
the Government went with Mr. Mylne to Portsmouth, on account of 
the then contemplated improvements of the harbour there. Captain 
Hududart also assisted in the survey of the dockyard at Sheerness, 
and for his co-operation received the thanks of the Lords’ Com- 
mittee of the Admirality. He was also employed to settle the 
bounlaries of the Whitstable Oyster Fisheries. 
[n 1809, Captain Huddart purchased the residential estate of 
Brynker, in Carnarvonshire, and later on other important properties 
n the same county. He, however, never resided upon, and it is 
said that he never even saw, his estates, the management of which 
he deputed to his sole surviving son. These estates are still in the 
possession of the Huddart family, the present representative being 
George Augustus Huddart, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant and J.P., 
Carnarvonshire, and J.P., Merionethshire. 
As Captain Huddart advanced in life his health gradually 
became less robust. So long, however, as his health permitted, 
he was assiduous in the performance of the various duties which’ 
devolved upon him; but his health at last broke down completely, 
and his illness, which was a protracted one, turned to dropsy, and 
terminated fatally on the roth August, 1816. 
In person Captain Huddart is said to have been tall and 
muscular, of a benign, open, and placid countenance. In his 
habits he was temperate and abstemious, and of a most kind and 
