George Manners Astley, 20th Baron Hastings, 10th Baronet Astley (4 April 1857 – 18 September 1904) succeeded to the Hastings barony upon the death of his unmarried brother in 1875.

Biography

George Manners Astley was born in 1857 at

Melton Constable Hall Melton Constable Hall is a large (Grade I listed building, listed) country house in the parish of Melton Constable, Norfolk, England designed in the Christopher Wren style and built between 1664 and 1670 for the Astley family who owned the estate ...

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, the son of Sir Delaval Loftus Astley, 18th Baron Hastings and Hon. Frances Diana Manners-Sutton. The Anglo-Norman Hastings barony was established in the year 1295, but was dormant from 1389, with multiple claimants, and then became abeyant from 1542. The barony was revived for Jacob Astley in 1841, who became the 16th Baron.''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953: 'Hastings'. George Manners Astley was educated at

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and at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any ...

. On 17 April 1880, Lord Hastings married Hon. Elizabeth Evelyn Harbord, daughter of Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield and Cecilia Annetta Baring. Lord Hastings and his wife had 3 sons and 3 daughters. He served as an officer in the Norfolk Artillery Militia commanded by his father-in-law and previously by his uncle the 17th Baron, and in which his younger brother also served. Hastings is famous as the breeder and owner of the Thoroughbred racehorse and sire Melton, winner in 1885 of both The Derby and the

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. Hastings died aged 47 and was succeeded by his son, Albert Edward Delaval Astley, 21st Baron Hastings. His wife Elizabeth Harbord is commemorated in the name of Harbord Terrace, a row of workers' houses just west of the northern seat of the Lords Hastings at

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in Northumberland.National Trust website for

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