Name Warner 15th Died April 5, 1939 | ||
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Parents Francis Power Hastings, 14th Earl of Huntingdon Children Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon, Lady Norah Frances Hastings Siblings Hon. Aubrey Craven Hastings Grandparents Francis Theophilus Hastings, 13th Earl of Huntingdon | ||
Grandchildren Lady Eleanor Needham | ||
Lieutenant-Colonel Warner Francis John Plantagenet Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon, DL (8 July 1868 – 5 April 1939) was a British peer, and Deputy Lieutenant of King's County, Ireland.
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Family
Hastings was born at St Stephen's Green, Dublin, the son of Francis Power Plantagenet Hastings, 14th Earl of Huntingdon and Mary Anne Wilmot Westenra. 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 St George's, Hanover Square. The children of this marriage were:
Career
He was Page of Honour to the Viceregal Court of Ireland between 1880 and 1881.
He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of King's County.
He was commissioned an officer in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, and resigned with the rank of major in February 1900, but was re-appointed in the same rank on 4 June 1901, and retired as lieutenant-colonel in 1905. He served again in the First World War.
He was a Master of Fox Hounds to the Ormond and East Galway hunts in Ireland, and to the Atherstone (Warwickshire)and North Staffordshire hunts in England.
Lord Huntingdon settled in England by 1925, where he lived at Burton Hall, near Loughborough, Leicestershire. He died in 1939, aged seventy, and was buried in the parish churchyard of St Helen's, Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
Recreations
He was a member of Lough Derg Corinthian Yacht Club in 1896.
Home
He gave his address in 1896 as'Sharavogue', Roscrea.