 He lost his seat in 1868 but won again in Norwich in 1874.Huddleston was Judge Advocate of the Fleet from 1865 to 1875, alongside appointment as a serjeant-at-law and the receiving of a knighthood.He was also made a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, which position was almost immediately transferred to the Exchequer and then to the Exchequer Division of the High Court.