The English surname Huddleston originates from a township in the parish of Sherbourn, West Riding, in Yorkshire England. The Huddlestons of Millum castle in the county Cumberland were very early established in that county. The earliest record of this surname is from 1200 when one Richard De Huddleston was residing in the "Curia Regis Rolls" of Yorkshire. The marriage of John Huddleston and Elizabeth Holy is registered in St. James Clerkenwell in 1711. A coat of arms was granted to the Huddleston family from the marriage of Henry III of Sir John De Huddleston, knight, with Joan, daughter and heir of Adam De Boivill, Lord of Millum.