Lieutenant-Colonel Warner Francis John Plantagenet Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon (8 July 1868 – 5 April 1939) was a British peer, and Deputy Lieutenant of

King's County, Ireland County Offaly (; ) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Uí Failghe. It was formerly known as King's County, in honour of Philip II of ...

Family

Hastings was born at

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, the son of Francis Power Plantagenet Hastings, 14th Earl of Huntingdon and Mary Anne Wilmot Westenra, daughter of Lt. Col. Hon.

John Westenra John Craven Westenra (31 March 1798 – 5 December 1874) was an Irish Whig politician and army officer. Born in Walsh Park, County Tipperary, Ireland, he was the son of Warner Westenra, 2nd Baron Rossmore and Mary Ann Walsh, and the brother ...

. He succeeded his father to the title of 15th Earl of Huntingdon on 20 May 1885. Lord Huntingdon married Maud Margaret Wilson, daughter of Sir Samuel Wilson, on 11 June 1892 at

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. The children of this marriage were: * Lady Maud Kathleen Cairnes Plantagenet Hastings (28 March 1893 – 8 February 1965) married William Montagu Curzon-Herrick, son of Colonel Hon. Montagu Curzon and Esmé Fitzroy, on 28 July 1916 * Lady Norah Frances Hastings (12 September 1894 - 1985) married Francis Charles Adelbert Henry Needham, 4th Earl of Kilmorey, son of Francis Charles Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey and Ellen Constance Baldock, on 10 February 1920 * Lady Marian Ileene Mabel Hastings (15 Septembter 1895 - 22 April 1947) married Captain Patrick Keith Cameron, son of Keith Cameron on 16 July 1918. Secondly Captain John Walter Wilson Bridges, son of Rear-Admiral Walter Bogue Bridges, in 1943. *

Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon (30 January 1901 – 24 August 1990), styled Viscount Hastings until 1939, was a British artist, academic, and later a Labour parliamentarian. Background and educa ...

(30 January 1901 - 1990)

Career

He was Page of Honour to the Viceregal Court of Ireland between 1880 and 1881, he also held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of King's County (now

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). He was commissioned an officer in the 4th (Queen's County Militia) Battalion,

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, later transferred to the 3rd (King's County Militia) Battalion and resigned with the rank of

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in February 1900 when he was found unfit for active service in the

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. He was re-appointed in the same rank on 4 June 1901, and retired as lieutenant-colonel in 1905. He served again in the

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. He was a Master of Fox Hounds to the Ormond and East Galway hunts in Ireland, and to the Atherstone (

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)and North Staffordshire hunts in England. Lord Huntingdon settled in England by 1925, where he lived at Burton Hall, near

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. He died in 1939, aged 70, and was buried in the parish churchyard of St Helen's,

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Recreations

He was a member of Lough Derg Corinthian Yacht Club in 1896.LDCYC Membership list

Home

He gave his address in 1896 as

Sharavogue Sharavogue (''Searbhóg'' in Irish) is a townland in the historical Barony of Clonlisk, County Offaly, Ireland. It is a rural area located near the junction of the N52 road and the R492 between Roscrea and Birr. The Little Brosna River flow ...

, Roscrea.

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