Sir Charles Hastings, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Hastings, 1st Baronet | |
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| Allegiance |  Sir Charles Abney-Hastings (son) |
General Sir Charles Hastings, 1st Baronet, GCH (12 March 1752 – September 1823) was a British Army officer.
Family
Hastings was the illegitimate son of Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon, and an unknown mother who was in fact a famous French courtesan, la demoiselle Lany, "danseuse de l'Opéra". He was born in Paris on 12 March 1752 and brought up in England.[1]
He married Parnel Abney, the only daughter and heiress of Thomas Abney of Willesley Hall in Willesley, Derbyshire. Thomas Abney was the son of Sir Thomas Abney, Justice of the Common Pleas.
Hastings had two sons, Charles, born on 1 October 1792, and Frank, who was born on 6 February 1794, and a daughter, Selina, who died young.[2]
He was created a
Lady Hastings passed her life in seclusion and near blindness at their ancestral home.[3]
Military career
He purchased an
Hastings took his own life and had acorns buried with him in 1823. He was succeeded by his son,
References
- ^ Laurence L. Bongie, From Rogue To Everyman: A Foundling's Journey to the Bastille, McGill-Queen's Press, 2004, p. 200
- ^ Debrett's Baronetage of England Containing Their Descent and Present State, Their Collateral Branches, Births, Marriages, and Issue, from the Institution of the Order in 1611... ,John Debrett, Retrieved 12 July 2008
- ^ kareldegrote.nl. Retrieved 11 July 2008
- ^ Commander of the Karteria