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HASTINGS - LoveToKnow Article on HASTINGS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | His paternal grandmother, Ada, was a younger daughter of David, earl of Huntingdon, and a niece of the Scottish king, William the Lion; and in 1290 when Margaret, the maid of Norway, died, Hastings came forward as a claimant for the vacant throne. |
 | | On the death of John, the third and last earl of Pembroke of the Hastings family, in 1389, Sir Hughs son JOHN had, according to a decision of the House of Lords in 5840, a title to the barony of Hastings, but he did not prosecute his claim and he died without Sons in 1393. |
 | | HASTINGS, FRANCIS RAWDON-HASTINGS, 1st MARQuESS OF (1754-1826), British soldier and governor-general of India, born on the 9th of December 1754, was the son of Sir John Rawdon of Moira in the county of Down, 4th baronet, who was created Baron Rawdon of Moira, and afterwards earl of Moira, in the Irish peerage. |
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