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The only surviving son here and elsewhere referred to was Sir 
Joseph Huddart (now deceased), of Brynkir. He was appointed 
deputy-lieutenant for Carnarvonshire in 1820, and served the 
office of High Sheriff in 1821, when King George the IV., paying 
a visit to the Principality, conferred the honour of knighthood 
upon him. He married, May 15th, 1808, Elizabeth, second 
daughter of Andrew Durham, Esq., of Belvedere, County Down, 
and had issue nine children. 
Such is, briefly, the narrative of Captain Huddart’s eventful 
life ; and I hope its relation may have proved both interesting and 
instructive to you. Within the limited compass of a paper of this 
kind it is obviously difficult, if not impossible, to enter as fully as 
one might wish into details—a task which at this distance of time 
would, in the present instance, be beset with more than ordinary 
difficulty. It will be seen that Captain Huddart made his reputa- 
tion at a period when the educational machinery of this country, 
compared with that of the present day, was most inefficient and 
insufficient. The parish school of that day, whether as regards its 
structural character or its educational machinery and general 
efficiency, was as nothing compared with the voluntary elementary 
and Board schools of our time. And yet the century in which 
Captain Huddart lived produced men eminent in every depart- 
ment of genius, who emerged into public life in many instances 
from very humble positions. It seems as though the want of 
educational facilities in those days impelled men to largely cultivate 
self-culture and self-reliance, and to draw all the more greedily 
from, when found, those springs of knowledge which here and 
there fortunately welled up in the rural plains of intellectual 
barrenness. 
At Allonby, as was not infrequently the case in many rural 
portions of Cumberland, it would almost seem as if the parish 
school had been taught by the incumbent of the parish. Thus 
children got an education which was, in the majority of cases, 
vastly superior to that which they would have otherwise received 
from the typical country pedagogue. 
In Captain Huddart’s time no doubt mathematics, and the 
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