Lieutenant-Colonel Warner Francis John Plantagenet Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon DL (8 July 1868 – 5 April 1939) was a British peer,[1] and Deputy Lieutenant of King's County, Ireland.
Lieutenant-Colonel Warner Francis John Plantagenet Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon DL (8 July 1868 – 5 April 1939) was a British peer,[1] and Deputy Lieutenant of King's County, Ireland.
Hastings was born at St Stephen's Green, Dublin,[2] the son of Francis Power Plantagenet Hastings, 14th Earl of Huntingdon and Mary Anne Wilmot Westenra, daughter of Lt. Col. Hon. John Westenra.[3] 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:
He was Page of Honour to the Viceregal Court of Ireland between 1880 and 1881, he also held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of King's County (now County Offaly).[4]
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,[5] but was re-appointed in the same rank on 4 June 1901,[6] and retired as lieutenant-colonel in 1905.[7] He served again in the First World War.[2]
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.[8]
Lord Huntingdon settled in England by 1925, where he lived at Burton Hall, near Loughborough, Leicestershire.[9] He died in 1939,[10] aged 70, and was buried in the parish churchyard of St Helen's, Ashby-de-la-Zouch.[citation needed]
He was a member of Lough Derg Corinthian Yacht Club in 1896.[11][unreliable source?]
He gave his address in 1896 as Sharavogue, Roscrea.[citation needed]
