George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon (1540 – 30 December 1604) was an English nobleman. He was a son of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and Catherine Pole, daughter of

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and Jane Neville. He was a younger brother of Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, and older brother of Francis Hastings. He succeeded Henry as the 4th Earl. He was

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in 1571 and

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(MP) for

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in 1562 and

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in 1584–1587. He was invested as a knight in 1565. They lived at Gopsall and then

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, both in Leicestershire. He hosted

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and her children Prince Henry and Princess Elizabeth at

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on 22 June 1603. Huntingdon was anxious for the queen to visit and enlisted the Earl of Shrewsbury's steward Richard Bainbrigg and others to make his case that the royal party should come to Ashby Castle from

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. He was succeeded by his grandson Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon. He died in 1604.

Marriage

George married Dorothy Port, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Port of

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, Derbyshire. They had five children: *

Francis Hastings, Baron Hastings Francis Hastings, Lord Hastings (1560 – 17 December 1595) was the son of George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon and Dorothy Port. He married Sarah Harington, daughter of Sir James Harington (lawyer), James Harington and Lucy Sydney. They had fi ...

(1560–1595), who was father to Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon. * Henry Hastings (1562 – 5 October 1650). *Sir Edward Hastings. *Catherine Hastings. Married first Sir Walter Chetwynd and secondly Sir Edward Unton. Her second husband was a son of Edward Unton and Anne Seymour. Anne was a daughter of

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, and Anne Stanhope. * Dorothy Hastings, was a Maid of Honour at court. She married a Scottish courtier, James Stewart, a son of Walter Stewart of Blantyre.''HMC Manuscripts of the Duke of Portland'', vol. 9 (London, 1923), pp. viii, 119, 154. Her second husband was Robert Dillon, 2nd Earl of Roscommon.

References

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George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon (1540 – 30 December 1604) was an English nobleman. He was a son of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and Catherine Pole, daughter of Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu and Jane Neville. He was a youn ...

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