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Mr. Edmunds on a charge of mur- dering his wife, and was subse- quently counsel for that gentleman in several actions which he brought against different papers arising out of that transaction. In his at- tempts to enter the House of Com- mons in the Conservative interest, Mr. Huddlestonwas unsuccessful at Worcester in 1852, at Shrewsbury in 1857> and at Kidderminster in 1859 and 1861. In 1865, however, he was elected for Canterbury, and he represented that city for three years, being defeated at the general election of 1868. While he repre- sented this constituency he brought forward the Hop (Prevention of Frauds) Bill, which was added to the Statute Book. At the election for Norwich in July, 1870, Mr. Huddleston was the unsuccessful candidate ; but at the general election of Feb. 1874, he was elected for that city by a majority of 47 votes over his former an- tagonist, Mr. Tillett. At the beginning of the year 1875, on the retirement of Sir J. Karslake from the Attorney-Generalship, and the promotion of Sir B. Baggallay to that i)08t, the Solicitor-Generalship was offered by Mr. Disraeli to Mr. Huddleston, who, however, declined it in consequence of the apprehended difficulty of keeping his seat at Norwich. Mr. Huddle- ston continued to represent that city until Feb. 22, 1875, when, on the resignation of Mr. Justice Honyman, he was appointed by the Crown, on the recommendation of Lord Chancellor Cairns, to a puisne judgeship of the Court of Common Pleas. He sat in the Common Pleas but a short time, however, for in May, 1875, on the death of Sir GiUery Pigott, his old com- panion ana co-leader of the Oxford circuit, he was nominated one of the Barons of the Court of Exche- quer. On this occasion he received the honour of knighthood. Sir John married on Dec. 18, 1872, Lady Diana De Vere Beauclerk,

daughter of the eighth duke of St. Albans.

HUDSON, Sir Jambs, G.C.B., son of a Yorkshire gentleman, and grandson of the first Marquis Townshend, born in 1810, was edu- cated at Rugby and Westminster. Having acted as page and Private Secretary to WilUam IV., he en- tered the diplomatic service in 1838, was appointed Secretary of Legation at Washington, whence he was transferred in the same capacity successively to the Hague, and to Bio Janeiro. He was Minister at the latter place in 1850-1, was transferred to Florence in 1851, and was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Turin in 1852, in which capacity he heartily sym- pathized with the cause of Italian liberty and unity. He was created a K.C.B. May 2, 1855, for his ser- vices in inducing the Sardinian government to co-operate with Great Britain and France by sending an army to the Crimea; and was promoted a G.C.B. Aug. 11, 1863, on his retirement from his diplomatic post at Turin.

HUEFFER, Fbancis, Ph.D., was born in 1845, and devoted himself to the study of modern philology and music in London, Paris, Berlin, and Leipzig. His first publication (1869) was a critical edition of the works of GuiUem de Cabestant, a trouba- dour of the 12th century, for which the University of Gbttingen con- ferred upon him the degree of Ph.D. A more extensive work on the same subject, entitled "The Trouba- dours : a History of Provincial Life and Literature in the Middle Ages," was published in 1878 j and in 1880 Mr. Hueffer delivered a series of lectures on the Trouba- dours at the Royal Institution. As a writer on music and a musical critic, Mr. Hueffer has been the first in England to advocate the claims of Richard Wagner, whose works were ten years ago almost unknown in this country. His