Henry Hastings

Henry Hastings (c. 1561 – 15 October 1650), was an English landowner and country sportsman. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.

Life

Hastings was second son of George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon. There seems to be some confusion as to his date of birth, which is said to have been 1551 by the Dictionary of National Biography, but is actually around a decade later. Dr. Drake (who printed it in William Hone's Everyday Book, ii. 1624) omitted some disparaging remarks; Shaftesbury himself lived near Hastings's residence, and was a Parliamentarian.

Hastings married Dorothy Willoughby, second daughter and coheiress of Sir Francis Willoughby (the builder of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire). She died on 15 December 1638. On 1 Jun 1639 he settled part of his estate on Anne Langton of Woodlands, spinster daughter of William Langton, and they later married, but she is not mentioned in his epitaph. Woodlands passed into the hands of the Roy family, and was subsequently added to Lord Shaftesbury's estate.

He was buried with his wife and their son, Sir George Hastings, who died in 1657, in the Hastings aisle in the belfry of the old church of Horton.