Sir Charles Abney Hastings, 2nd Baronet (1 October 1792 – 30 July 1858) of Willesley Hall,

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was both

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and an MP for

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from 1826 to 1831.

Biography

Abney-Hastings was the elder son of General

Sir Charles Hastings, 1st Baronet 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 F ...

, by the daughter and heir of Thomas Abney Esq. He was born in 1792, probably in

Willesley Willesley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the North West Leicestershire district, in the county of Leicestershire, England. It was originally in Derbyshire. Willesley Hall was the home of the A ...

The Gentleman's Magazine, 1858, accessed 12 July 2008 and succeeded his father in 1823, assuming, after his maternal grandfather, the additional name of Abney before that of Hastings, by Royal Licence 1 December 1823. It was a condition of an Abney ancestor that whoever received the manors took up the surname Abney.The Feudal History of the County of Derby, John Pym Yeatman, 1905, pp. 75-76: Sir Charles was

in 1825 and was MP for Leicester from 1826 to 1831. Charles' brother,

Frank Abney Hastings Frank Abney Hastings ( el, Φραγκίσκος Άστιγξ) (14 February 1794 – 1 June 1828) was a British naval officer and Philhellene. Born to a noble British family, he served in the Royal Navy, seeing action at the Battle of Trafalgar ...

, who might have inherited the title or fathered an heir, died a hero in 1828 at

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. Hastings died on 30 July 1858, aged 66. By a deed of settlement executed about 1846 the

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and

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estates of Sir Charles passed to

Henry Rawdon-Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Rawdon-Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings and 9th Earl of Loudoun (22 July 1842 – 10 November 1868), styled Lord Henry Rawdon-Hastings from birth until 1851, was a British peer. He was also, starting from most ...

. Willesley Hall and its estate were left to Lady Edith Maud Rawdon-Hastings, later Countess of Loudoun, the Marquess' eldest sister and wife of Charles Frederick Clifton Esq. Charles Frederick Clifton and his wife assumed by Act of Parliament in 1859 the surname and arms of Abney-Hastings. This was required by the conditions of Charles Abney Hastings' will. His will required that this name change should be done by "sanction of Queen, Lords and Commons namely by an Act of Parliament".On Surnames and the Rules of Law Affecting Their Change
With Comments on the Correspondence of the Lord-Lieutenant of Monmouthshire and Certain Officials Respecting a Change of Surname, By Thomas Falconer, accessed 12 July 2008

References

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