Hastings family land records, approximately 1590-1868

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Summary

Title:
Hastings family land records
Dates:
approximately 1590-1868
Creators:
Maclaren, Edith, Lady, 1925-2006
Abstract:
Land records and documents belonging to the prominent British Hastings family.
Extent:
9.4 Linear Feet (8 boxes)
Language:
Materials are in English and Latin.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Hastings family land records, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains a variety of types of deeds and documents belonging to different generations of the Hastings family, dating from 1590 through 1868. About half of the collection pertains to land in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England.

Biographical / historical:

For over four hundred years the Hastings family (various barons Hastings, Botreaux, Hungerford, Loughborogh and Moleyns, earls of Huntingdon, Pembroke, and Moira, and marquesses of Hastings) played a major role in English political life and exercised wide local influence in Leicestershire and other English counties. The Hastings family members were active in Parliament and at Court, and acted as Lords Lieutenant of Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Rutland, and Warwickshire. Among the most notable members of the family are William Hastings, 1st Baron of Hastings (1430?-1483), a Yorkist executed for treason by Richard III, Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (approximately 1536-1595) and Sir Francis Hastings, active Puritan statesman, Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon (1650-1701), a staunch Tory and Royalist, Theophilus Hastings, the 9th Earl of Huntingdon, a noted Whig and his wife Selina, founder of a Methodist group known as "The Countess of Huntingdon Connection," and Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquis of Hastings, a British officer during the American Revolution and Governor General of Bengal from 1813 to 1822.

Acquisition information:
Purchased from Lady Edith Maclaren, 1977.
Processing information:

Processed by Huntington Library staff in approximately 1977. In May 2024, Brooke M. Black created the finding aid.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Brooke M. Black
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-05-16 14:53:03 -0700 .

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Restrictions:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Hastings family land records, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
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