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Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon (30 January 1901-24 August 1990), known as Viscount Hastings until 1939, was a British
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 artist, academic and Labour
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 politician.

Huntingdon was the son of Warner Francis John Plantagenet Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon, and his wife Maud Margaret (née Wilson), and was educated at Eton
Eton College

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, Christ Church, Oxford
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, and the Slade School of Art, London
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Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon (30 January 1901-24 August 1990), known as Viscount Hastings until 1939, was a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 artist, academic and Labour
Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
 politician.

Huntingdon was the son of Warner Francis John Plantagenet Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon, and his wife Maud Margaret (née Wilson), and was educated at Eton
Eton College

Eton College, also known as Eton, is a world-famous British independent school for boys, founded in 1440 by Henry VI of England. It was founded as the King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor....
, Christ Church, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church , is one of the largest Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England. As well as being a college, Christ Church is also the cathedral church of the diocese of Oxford, namely Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford....
, and the Slade School of Art, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. He was a pupil of the Mexican mural
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 painter Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera

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 and had exhibitions in notably London, Paris
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, Chicago
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 and San Francisco. He was also a Professor at the Camberwell College of Arts
Camberwell College of Arts

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 and the Central School of Arts & Crafts
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

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, London. During the Second World War he was Deputy Controller of Defence of the Andover
Andover, Hampshire

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 Rural District Council from 1941 to 1945. Huntingdon succeeded in the earldom in 1939 and took his seat on the Labour benches in the House of Lords
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. He served under Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society was a British people politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955....
 as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1945 to 1950. He was later Chairman of the Committee of the Society of Mural Painters between 1951 and 1958 and was the author of The Golden Octopus and Commonsense about India.

Lord Huntingdon married firstly Cristina, daughter of Camillo Casati Stampa di Soncino, Marchese di Roma, and his wife Luisa
Luisa Casati

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, in 1925. They had one daughter (Lady Moorea, who married Woodrow Wyatt
Woodrow Wyatt

Woodrow Lyle Wyatt, Baron Wyatt of Weeford , was a United Kingdom Labour Party politician, published author, journalist and broadcaster whose opinions significantly changed during the course of his career....
) but were divorced in 1943 (she died in 1953). He married secondly Margaret, daughter of Harry George Lane and former wife of Bryan Wallace (son of Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals....
), in 1944. They had two daughters. Lady Huntingdon was a writer and critic and published books on Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter

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, Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson was an English author. Beginning as a Grub Street journalist, he made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer....
 and the Brontë sisters
Brontë

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. Lord Huntingdon died in August 1990, aged 89, and was succeeded in the earldom by his first cousin once removed William Edward Robin Hood Hastings-Bass. Lady Huntingdon died in 1994.