Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon (18 January 1609 – 13 February 1656), was the son of Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon, and Lady Elizabeth Stanley, the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, and Alice Spencer. He married

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, daughter of Sir John Davies, on 7 August 1623. He was MP for

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warw ...

in 1625 and again in 1628–29. Ferdinando's family seat,

Ashby de la Zouch Castle Ashby de la Zouch Castle is a ruined fortification in the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England. The castle was built by William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, William, Lord Hastings, a favourite of Edward IV of England, Edward IV, ...

, was destroyed by

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's troops in the

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in 1646. He died of

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at age 47 and was succeeded by his son, Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon. There is a monument to him in St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

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