List of Famous people with last name Hastings

Beatrice Hastings was the pen name of Emily Alice Haigh an English writer, poet and literary critic. Her work was integral to British Magazine The New Age which she helped edit along with her lover, A. R. Orage, prior to the outbreak of the First World War. Hastings was also friend and lover of Katherine Mansfield, whose work was first published in The New Age. She also had love affairs with Wyndham Lewis and Amedeo Modigliani.

Francis Hastings, Lord Hastings was the son of George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon and Dorothy Port. He married Sarah Harington, daughter of Sir James Harington and Lucy Sydney. They had five children:

• Catherine, who married Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield, died 28 August 1636
• Henry, who succeeded his grandfather as Earl of Huntingdon.
• Sir George Hastings
• Captain Edward Hastings, died 1617
• Theodosia Hastings, married Sir Francis Bodenham.

Vice-Admiral George Fowler Hastings CB was an officer of the Royal Navy, who saw service during the First Opium War and the Crimean War. In a naval career spanning over 50 years Hastings saw service across the British Empire, and rose to the rank of vice-admiral. His service as commander in chief on the Pacific Station of the Royal Navy at Esquimalt on the British Columbia Coast of what is now Canada is today commemorated in the names of several locations and geographic features.