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 | | 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. |
 | | When Francis, 10th earl of Huntingdon, died in October 1789, the barony of Hastings passed to his sister Elizabeth (1731-1808), wife of John Rawdon, earl of Moira, and from her it came to her son Francis Rawdon-Hastings (see below), who was created marquess of Hastings in 1817. |
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