Hastings (surname)
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As a surname Hastings may sometimes be a patronymicPatronymic
A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...
surname from the Anglo-Norman
Anglo-Norman
The Anglo-Normans were mainly the descendants of the Normans who ruled England following the Norman conquest by William the Conqueror in 1066. A small number of Normans were already settled in England prior to the conquest...
personal name Hasting (also Hastain), but is usually a toponymic surname from Hastings
Hastings
Hastings is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England. The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London, and has an estimated population of 86,900....
in Sussex.
Those bearing it include:
- Henry Hastings, 1st Baron LoughboroughHenry Hastings, 1st Baron LoughboroughHenry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough was an English Royalist army commander in the Midlands during the English Civil War.-Life:...
(1610-1667) - Solon S. Hastings (1806-aft. 1864) Massachusetts legislator
- Bill Hastings (footballer)Bill Hastings (footballer)William "Bill" Hastings was an English professional footballer who scored seven goals in 40 appearances in the Second Division of the Football League playing for Birmingham. He also won the Southern League title with Brighton & Hove Albion in the 1909–10 season and with Watford in 1914–15...
(born 1888), English professional footballer - Steven J. Hastings (1850-aft. 1892) Vermont legislator
- Smith H. Hastings (1843-1905) Union Col. and Medal of Honor winner
- Thomas Nelson Hastings (1858-1907) Member of NH State Senate and friend of Thomas Edison
- Wells Southworth Hastings (1878-1923) Author
- Somerville HastingsSomerville HastingsSomerville Hastings FRCS MP was a British surgeon and Labour Party politician.The son of the Reverend H G Hastings, he was born in Warminster, Wiltshire. He was educated at Wycliffe College , University College and the Middlesex Hospital, London...
(1878-1967) English Surgeon, Socialist and Member of Parliament - John Simpson HastingsJohn Simpson HastingsJohn Simpson Hastings was a United States federal judge.Born in Washington, Indiana, Hastings received a B.S. from U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York in 1920 and was a Lieutenant in the United States Army, Field Artillery from 1920 to 1921. He received an LL.B...
(1898–1977), U.S. Federal Judge - Maj.Gen Kester Lovejoy Hastings (1897-1983), Quartermaster of the U.S. Army
- Alcee HastingsAlcee HastingsAlcee Lamar Hastings is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1993. He is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life, education and career:...
(born 1936), American politician - Brian Hastings (born 1940), New Zealand cricketer
- Reed HastingsReed HastingsWilmot Reed Hastings, Jr. is an entrepreneur and education philanthropist. He is the CEO of Netflix, and on the boards of Microsoft, Facebook, and numerous non-profit organizations.- Early life and education :...
(born 1960), Founder of Netflix - Bill Hastings (censor) (born c. 1960), Chief Censor of New Zealand from 1999 to 2010
- Several Earls of HuntingdonEarl of HuntingdonEarl of Huntingdon is a title which has been created several times in the Peerage of England. The title is associated with the ruling house of Scotland, and latterly with the Hastings family.-Early history:...
- Alan HastingsAlan HastingsAlan Hastings is a theoretical ecologist and distinguished professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. In 2005 he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2006 he won the Robert H. MacArthur Award...
American Theoretical Ecologist - Anne Hastings (disambiguation), multiple people
- Barbara Huddleston Abney-Hastings, 13th Countess of Loudoun last hereditary peerHereditary peerHereditary peers form part of the Peerage in the United Kingdom. There are over seven hundred peers who hold titles that may be inherited. Formerly, most of them were entitled to sit in the House of Lords, but since the House of Lords Act 1999 only ninety-two are permitted to do so...
in her family line upon implementation of the House of Lords act of 1999. - Bob HastingsBob HastingsRobert "Bob" Hastings is an American film, radio, and television character actor. He has also provided voices for animated cartoons....
- Charles Hastings (disambiguation), multiple people
- Daniel H. HastingsDaniel H. HastingsDaniel Hartman Hastings was the 21st Governor of Pennsylvania from 1895 to 1899. Although he was only 12 years old at the outbreak of the American Civil War, the young Hastings made three successive attempts to run away from home and enlist in the Union army, each time stopped by his father...
- Daniel O. HastingsDaniel O. HastingsDaniel Oren Hastings was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served two terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware.-Early Life and Family:...
- Doc HastingsDoc HastingsRichard Norman "Doc" Hastings is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1995. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district includes most of the central part of the state, including Yakima, Wenatchee, and the Tri-Cities....
- Don HastingsDon HastingsDonald Francis Hastings is a longtime American actor, singer, and writer best known for his 50-year role as Dr. Robert "Bob" Hughes" on the soap opera As the World Turns...
- Edith Abney-Hastings
- Edward Delaval Henry Astley, 22nd Baron Hastings
- Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron HastingsEdward Hastings, 2nd Baron HastingsEdward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings, KB was an English peer born in Kirby Muxloe Castle, Leicestershire, England to Sir William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings and Katherine Neville. He succeeded to his title on the execution of his father William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings on 13 June 1483...
- Edward Hastings, Baron Hastings of LoughboroughEdward Hastings, Baron Hastings of LoughboroughSir Edward Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings of Loughborough, KG was born, the son of George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, circa 1521 in Loughborough, Leicestershire. He married Joane Harrington daughter of John Harrington of Bagworth, Leicestershire circa 1544....
- Lady Flora HastingsLady Flora HastingsLady Flora Elizabeth Rawdon-Hastings was a British aristocrat and lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent, whose death in 1839 caused a court scandal that gave the Queen a negative image....
- Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of HuntingdonFrancis Hastings, 2nd Earl of HuntingdonFrancis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, KG was the eldest son of George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon and Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon, the ex-mistress of Henry VIII....
- Frank Abney HastingsFrank Abney HastingsFrank Abney Hastings was a British naval officer and Philhellene.- Early career :He was the son of Lieut.-general Sir Charles Hastings of Willesley Hall, a natural son of Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon...
- Gavin HastingsGavin HastingsAndrew Gavin Hastings, OBE is a former Scotland rugby union player. He is frequently considered one of the best, if not the best, rugby player to come out of Scotland. His nickname is "Big Gav".Hastings was born in Edinburgh...
- George Hastings, 1st Earl of HuntingdonGeorge Hastings, 1st Earl of HuntingdonGeorge Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, the son of Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings and Mary Hungerford. George Hastings was created the first Earl of Huntingdon by Henry VIII of England on 3 November 1529. On the same day his son Francis gained a seat at the...
- George Hastings, 4th Earl of HuntingdonGeorge Hastings, 4th Earl of HuntingdonSir George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon was an English nobleman.He was a son of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and Catherine Pole. He was a younger brother of Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon and older brother of Francis Hastings...
- George Hastings, 8th Earl of HuntingdonGeorge Hastings, 8th Earl of HuntingdonGeorge Hastings, 8th Earl of Huntingdon was the son of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon and Elizabeth Lewis. He succeeded his father in 1701 and died of malignant fever on 22 February 1704/5, aged 27, unmarried....
- George Hastings (American politician)George Hastings (American politician)George Hastings was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Clinton, New York, Hastings attended the public schools.He graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1826.He studied law....
- George Hastings (British politician)George Hastings (British politician)George Woodyatt Hastings was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1892....
- George Hastings (Manitoba politician)
- George Fowler HastingsGeorge Fowler HastingsVice-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...
- Henry de Hastings, 1st Baron HastingsHenry de Hastings, 1st Baron HastingsHenry de Hastings was created Baron in 1264 by Simon de Montfort. He led the Londoners at the Battle of Lewes, where he was taken prisoner, and fought at the Battle of Evesham...
- Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of HuntingdonHenry Hastings, 5th Earl of HuntingdonHenry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon was a prominent English nobleman and literary patron in England during the first half of the seventeenth century.-Life:...
- Jacob Astley, 16th Baron HastingsJacob Astley, 16th Baron HastingsJacob Astley, 16th Baron Hastings , known as Sir Jacob Astley, Bt, between 1817 and 1841, was a British peer and Whig politician.-Background and education:...
- James HastingsJames HastingsJames Hastings was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and biblical scholar.He was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire.He studied the classics at the University of Aberdeen, attended the Free Church Divinity College in Aberdeen, and was ordained a Free Church minister in 1884.He was founder and editor of...
- John Hastings (disambiguation)John Hastings (disambiguation)-English noblemen:*John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings , peer and soldier*John Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings , peer and soldier, son of above*John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke , peer and soldier, grandson of above...
, multiple people - Jordan HastingsJordan HastingsJordan "Ratbeard" Hastings is a Canadian musician best known as the former drummer of Alexisonfire, having replaced their former drummer and founding member Jesse Ingelevics....
- Katherine HastingsKatherine HastingsKatherine Hastings is an American Poet living in Northern California. She has had poems published in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Comstock Review, Roque Dalton Redux , Rattle, Calyx, California Quarterly, Diner, Birmingham Arts Journal, Potpourri, New College Review and ...
- Katherine Hastings, Countess of HuntingdonKatherine Hastings, Countess of HuntingdonKatherine Hastings , Countess of Huntingdon was an English noblewoman. She was the youngest surviving daughter of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland and his wife Jane Guildford, and a sister of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Elizabeth I's favourite...
(d. 1620) - Kevin HastingsKevin HastingsKevin 'Horrie' Hastings is an Australian retired multi-award winning rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. He played in Australia's New South Wales Rugby League Football Competition...
, Australian rugby league footballer - Lansford HastingsLansford HastingsLansford Warren Hastings is best remembered as the developer of Hastings Cutoff, a shortcut across what is now the state of Utah, a factor in the Donner Party disaster of 1846.-Early life:...
- Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of PembrokeLaurence Hastings, 1st Earl of PembrokeLaurence de Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke was a Norman English nobleman and held the titles 1st Earl of Pembroke , Baron Abergavenny and Baron Hastings under Edward II of England and Edward III of England....
- Macdonald HastingsMacdonald HastingsDouglas Edward Macdonald Hastings was a British journalist, author and war correspondent.Macdonald Hastings was born in London, and educated at Stonyhurst College, a Roman Catholic Jesuit school in Lancashire. He became war correspondent for Picture Post during the Second World War, sending...
- Sir Max HastingsMax HastingsSir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. He is the son of Macdonald Hastings, the noted British journalist and war correspondent and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar.-Life and career:Hastings was educated at Charterhouse...
- Michael Hastings (playwright)Michael Hastings (playwright)Michael Gerald Hastings was a British playwright, screen-writer, and occasional novelist and poet.He is probably best known for his 1984 play about the poet T.S. Eliot and his wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood, Tom & Viv, which became a motion picture released in 1994.Hastings was born in London...
- Michael John Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick
- Milo HastingsMilo HastingsMilo Milton Hastings was an American inventor, author, and nutritionist. He invented the forced-draft chicken incubator and Weeniwinks, a health-food snack. He wrote about chickens, science fiction, and health, among other things. Some of his writing is available in book form and on Project...
- Natasha HastingsNatasha HastingsNatasha Monique Hastings is an American sprint athlete of Jamaican and Trinidadian descent.Hastings began her track career at a very early age and made a first place win at the USATF Junior Olympics in the 400 metres in the Youth Girls division. She attended A...
- Patrick HastingsPatrick HastingsSir Patrick Gardiner Hastings KC was a British barrister and politician noted for his long and highly successful career as a barrister and his short stint as Attorney General. He was educated at Charterhouse School until 1896, when his family moved to continental Europe...
- Paul P. HastingsPaul P. HastingsPaul Pardee Hastings was a prominent executive of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad.- Personal life :...
- Peter Hastings (director)
- Richard HastingsRichard HastingsRichard Cory Hastings is a retired Canadian football player, who played for Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Ross County, Grazer AK, MVV Maastricht and Hamilton Academical....
- Scott Hastings (basketball)Scott Hastings (basketball)Scott Alan Hastings is a retired American player in the National Basketball Association. His career spanned from 1982–1993 and he played forward/center for the New York Knicks, Atlanta Hawks, Miami Heat, Detroit Pistons and Denver Nuggets.- College :Hastings played collegiate ball at the...
- Scott Hastings (rugby player)Scott Hastings (rugby player)Scott Hastings is a Scottish Rugby Union player. He won 65 caps at centre for Scotland from 1986 to 1997. Scott is the younger brother of Scottish great Gavin Hastings. They both earned their first cap on 17 January 1986 against France. When he retired, he was Scotland's most-capped player ever...
- Selina Hastings (author)
- Selina Hastings, Countess of HuntingdonSelina Hastings, Countess of HuntingdonSelina, Countess of Huntingdon was an English religious leader who played a prominent part in the religious revival of the 18th century and the Methodist movement in England and Wales, and has left a Christian denomination in England and Sierra Leone.-Early life:Selina Hastings was born as Lady...
- Serranus Clinton HastingsSerranus Clinton HastingsSerranus Clinton Hastings was a 19th-century politician and a prominent lawyer in the United States. He studied law as a young man and moved to the Iowa District in 1837 to open a law office. Iowa became a territory a year later, and he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the...
- Seth HastingsSeth HastingsSeth Hastings was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Cambridge to Seth & Hannah Hastings, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634...
- Stephen HastingsStephen HastingsSir Stephen Lewis Edmonstone Hastings, Kt, MC, MFH, was a war hero, former MI6 operative, Master of Foxhounds, author, painter, sculptor, and British Conservative Party politician who was elected as Member of Parliament for Mid Bedfordshire in a 1960 by-election caused by the elevation to the...
- Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of HuntingdonTheophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of HuntingdonTheophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon PC was an English politician. He was the son of Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon, born in the 27th year of his parents' marriage, and became Earl of Huntingdon on 13 February 1656 on his father's death...
- Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of HuntingdonTheophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of HuntingdonTheophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon was the son of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon and Mary Frances Fowler. He married Lady Selina Shirley, daughter of Washington Shirley, 2nd Earl Ferrers and Mary Levinge, on 3 June 1728.There is a monument to him in St Helen's Church,...
- Thomas Hastings (disambiguation), multiple people
- Warren HastingsWarren HastingsWarren Hastings PC was the first Governor-General of India, from 1773 to 1785. He was famously accused of corruption in an impeachment in 1787, but was acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1814.-Early life:...
, first Governor-General of India, later impeachedImpeachment of Warren HastingsThe Impeachment of Warren Hastings was a failed attempt to impeach the former Governor-General of India Warren Hastings in the Parliament of Great Britain between 1788 and 1795. Hastings was accused of misconduct during his time in Calcutta particularly relating to mismanagement and personal... - William Hastings, 1st Baron HastingsWilliam Hastings, 1st Baron HastingsWilliam Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings KG was an English nobleman. A follower of the House of York, he became a close friend and the most important courtier of King Edward IV, whom he served as Lord Chamberlain...
- William George Hastings, CBE
- William Soden HastingsWilliam Soden HastingsWilliam Soden Hastings was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.-Life and career:Born in Mendon, Massachusetts, his father was Seth Hastings, also a U.S. Representative. On his father's side of the family, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of...
Given names
There is a long Anglo-SaxonAnglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon may refer to:* Anglo-Saxons, a group that invaded Britain** Old English, their language** Anglo-Saxon England, their history, one of various ships* White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, an ethnicity* Anglo-Saxon economy, modern macroeconomic term...
tradition of using family specific surnames as first and middle names. One common approach is to use the mother's maiden name as such.
- Sir Albert Hastings MarkhamAlbert Hastings MarkhamAdmiral Sir Albert Hastings Markham, KCB was a British explorer, author, and officer in the Royal Navy. In 1903 he was made Knight Commander in the Order of the Bath...
, English explorer and Royal Navy Officer - Sir Charles Hastings DoyleCharles Hastings DoyleSir Charles Hastings Doyle, KCMG was a British military officer and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick....
- Edward Hastings Chamberlain
- Eliakim Hastings Moore (disambiguation)
- Francis Charles Hastings Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford
- Sir Francis Hastings DoyleFrancis Hastings DoyleSir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle, 2nd Baronet was a British poet.-Biography:Doyle was born near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, to a military family which produced several distinguished officers, including his father, Major-General Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, 1st Baronet, who was created a baronet in 1828...
, English poet - Frank Hastings HamiltonFrank Hastings HamiltonFrank Hastings Hamilton was a noted American surgeon, born at Wilmington, Vt.Hamilton was the son of Calvin and Lucinda Hamilton. Through his mother, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. Hamilton...
, M.D. - Frederick H. Rindge
- George Hastings PalmerGeorge Hastings PalmerGeorge Hastings Palmer was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1920 to 1922.Palmer was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was educated in Yarmouth...
- Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron IsmayHastings Ismay, 1st Baron IsmayGeneral Hastings Lionel "Pug" Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, KG, GCB, CH, DSO, PC was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat, remembered primarily for his role as Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War and his service as the first Secretary General of NATO from 1952...
- Hastings Kamuzu BandaHastings BandaHastings Kamuzu Banda was the leader of Malawi and its predecessor state, Nyasaland, from 1961 to 1994. After receiving much of his education overseas, Banda returned to his home country to speak against colonialism and advocate for independence...
, prime minister and president of Malawi - Hastings Edward HaringtonHastings Edward HaringtonHastings Edward Harrington VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Background:...
- Hastings KeithHastings KeithHastings Keith was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Keith was born in Brockton, Massachusetts on November 22, 1915. He graduated from Brockton High School, Deerfield Academy, and the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1938. He performed graduate work at Harvard University...
, American politician - Hastings Lees-SmithHastings Lees-SmithHastings Bertrand Lees-Smith PC was a British Labour politician who was briefly in the cabinet as President of the Board of Education in 1931...
(1878-1941) English Member of Parliament - Hastings RashdallHastings RashdallHastings Rashdall was an English philosopher who expounded a theory known as ideal utilitarianism.Son of an Anglican priest, he was educated at Harrow and received a scholarship for New College, Oxford...
- Hastings William Sackville Russell, 12th Duke of BedfordHastings Russell, 12th Duke of BedfordHastings William Sackville Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford MA , nicknamed Spinach Tavistock, was the son of Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford....
- Sir Hastings YelvertonHastings YelvertonAdmiral Sir Hastings Reginald Yelverton, GCB, born Hastings Reginald Henry , was a British naval officer of the 19th century...
- Henry Hastings SibleyHenry Hastings SibleyHenry Hastings Sibley was the first Governor of the U.S. state of Minnesota.-Early life and education:...
- Lemuel Hastings ArnoldLemuel H. ArnoldLemuel Hastings Arnold was the 12th Governor of the State of Rhode Island, as well as a U.S. Congressman.He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont to Dr. Jonathan & Cynthia Arnold....
- Michael Hastings Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme
- Waitstill SharpWaitstill SharpWaitstill Hastings Sharp was a Harvard College graduate and Unitarian minister. He was the son of naturalist author and professor Dallas Lore Sharp and Grace Hastings and a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634...