Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston
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Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston, 1913-1998
Lived at: 53 Hampstead Way
Profession: Religious leader
About his life:
- Sailed to Cape Town 1940; became a community worker
- Fought against apartheid, earning the nickname Makhalipile (’dauntless one’)
- Established the African Children's Feeding Scheme and raised money for the Orlando Swimming Pools – the only place black children could swim in Johannesburg until after 1994
- Served as Bishop of Masasi (Tanzania), Bishop of Stepney and Bishop of Mauritius
- Became the president of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in 1981, published works such as Naught for Your Comfort, earning the praise of Nelson Mandela
