Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston was a British Anglican archbishop as well as a boxer against discrimination in South Africa.
Trevor Huddleston, Sir Ernest Huddlestons father was supervisor of the Royal Indian Navy. Huddleston went to as a student at Lancing College, Lancing, and also later on he attended Christ Church College, Oxford. A component of his vacation he spent with jump pickers in Kent. So he began to be thinking about missionary job. He examined theology at Wells Theological College in 1937. He was commissioned a clergyman in 1939, he signed up with the Anglican religious area of the Resurrection (CR, German: "Community of the Resurrection").
In 1943 he relocated to Johannesburg in South Africa. He existed at his solution as head of the goal terminal of the CR in Rosettenville in Sophiatown district.
Over the following 13 years, Huddleston was a preferred priest. In 1949, he Superintendent of the St. Peter's School, which was called the "Black Eton of South Africa". He was called a tireless activist versus racism. He got his nickname Makhalipile (German: "The Intrepid"). Particularly at the start of the violent expulsion of Sophiatown Huddleston contributed pacifist resistance. 1955 he became the African National Congress (ANC) to the tranquility congress in Kliptown Isitwalandwe the honorary title (German as: "The wearing of the plumes of an uncommon bird") granted the greatest honor granted by the ANC. Huddleston was with Yusuf Dadoo, Albert Luthuli and the first recipient of this title.
In 1956, Huddleston was prohibited by the South African government. He then called back to England. In the exact same year he published his most well-known book, Naught for Your Comfort (German as: "No comfort," as a German version white wines, you beloved nation South Africa.), In which he denounces the system of racism passionately. He worked for numerous years currently at the headquarters of the Order in Mirfield and was committed to remain to oppose discrimination. In 1959 he was among the initiators of a global economic boycott of the apartheid regimen. In 1960 he was selected Bishop of Masasi in Tanzania today. 8 years later he was Suffragan Bishop of Stepney in the London diocese. In 1978 he was selected Bishop of Mauritius and also finally Archbishop of the "Province of the Indian Ocean".
In 1983 he resigned as archbishop, and returned to England. After that he committed himself primarily to the re-fight against discrimination.
Huddleston died in 1998 at the head office of the Order in Mirfield.
Our collection contains 2 quotes who is written / told by Trevor.
"God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace"
"My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself"
