
John Huddleston (15 April 1608-13 September 1698) was an English Roman Catholic priest who converted King Charles II of England on his deathbed.
Biography[]
John Huddleston was born in Farington Hall, Lancashire, England in 1608, the nephew of a Benedictine priest. He was ordained a Catholic priest in Rome in 1637 and returned to England in 1639. In 1651, while staying at Moseley Old Hall in Staffordshire, he helped shelter King Charles II of England in a priest-hole following the King's defeat at the Battle of Worcester. He went on to jin the Benedictines, and, after the Restoration of the House of Stuart, Huddleston was invited to live at Somerset House in London. He served as chaplain to Queen Catherine of Braganza, and he was spared from any persecution by the House of Lords amid the "Popish Plot" craze due to his service to the royal family. In 1685, he converted the dying Charles II on his deathbed after hearing his confession. He died in 1698.