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General Sir Charles Hastings, 1st Baronet GCH (12 March 1752 – September 1823) was a British Army officer. ==Family== Hastings was the illegitimate son of Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon and an unknown mother who was in fact a famous french courtisane, la demoiselle Lany, "danseuse de l'Opéra". He was born in Paris the 12th of march 1752 and brought up in England.〔Laurence L. Bongie, ''From Rogue To Everyman: A Foundling's Journey to the Bastille'', McGill-Queen's Press, 2004, p. 200〕 He married Parnel Abney, the only daughter and heiress of Thomas Abney of Willesley Hall in Willesley, Derbyshire. Thomas Abney was the son of Sir Thomas Abney Justice of the Common Pleas. Hastings had two sons, Charles born 1 October 1792 and Frank who was born 6 February 1794 and a daughter, Selina, who died young〔(Debrett's Baronetage of England ) Containing Their Descent and Present State, Their Collateral Branches, Births, Marriages, and Issue, from the Institution of the Order in 1611... ,John Debrett, accessed 12 July 2008〕 He was created a baronet, of Willesley Hall in the County of Derby, on 18 February 1806. He was also a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order. Hastings had an ancestral seat at Willesley from his marriage and a house at Harley Street in Middlesex. Lady Hastings passed her life in seclusion and near blindness at their ancestral home.〔(kareldegrote.nl ) accessed 11 July 2008〕 Hastings took his own life and had acorns buried with him in 1823. He was succeeded by his son Charles who changed his name to Abney-Hastings. His son Frank Abney Hastings fought at the Battle of Trafalgar and died at Zante.〔(Commander of the Karteria )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sir Charles Hastings, 1st Baronet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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