Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon
Francis Hastings Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1754 | |
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| Born | 13 March 1729 |
| Died | 2 October 1789 (aged 60) |
| Issue | Sir Charles Hastings, 1st Baronet |
| Father | 9th Earl of Huntingdon |
| Mother | Lady Selina Shirley |
Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon
and politician.Life
He was the eldest of seven children of the
Sir Benjamin Keene
. He visited Gibraltar (April 1753) and Lisbon (May 1753) before returning to England in early July 1753. The following July, he left England for a second, two-year tour of the continent. In Italy, he studied antiquities with the antiquarian Antonio Cocchi (a friend of his late father), as well as Joseph Wilton and the Abbé Venuti.
On his return from
Prince George) by the Queen was a girl. The error was doubly unfortunate at the time, as the King had hoped for a male heir and he also promised £1,000 to the bearer of the news that he had a son and £500 that he had a girl (Huntingdon did not receive either). In 1766, he launched a claim to the royal Dukedom of Clarence that preoccupied him for the rest of his life. He died suddenly on 2 October 1789, at the London house of his nephew, Francis Rawdon. On his death in 1789, the earldom became dormant. He was succeeded in the baronies of Hastings, Hungerford, de Moleyns and Botreaux by his sister Lady Elizabeth, wife of John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira. Huntingdon was a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1758 and of the Society of Antiquaries
in 1768.
Citations
- ISBN 978-0-300-14238-9.
- ^ "The British Sword of State - A Wonderful Sabre of Immense Value". The Buffalo Commercial. 15 February 1900. p. 5. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
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