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HARVEY, Bissell. Cornet 26 light dragoons 9 Nov. 1797; captain 1 foot 20 June 1811 to 25 Oct. 1821 when placed on h.p.; fort major Edinburgh castle 1822–40; inspecting field officer of Leeds recruiting district 24 Jany. 1840, of Glasgow recruiting district Dec. 1846 to Nov. 1847; lieut. col. 9 foot 5 Nov. 1847, retired same day; K.H. 1837. d. Whitby 6 Feb. 1854.

HARVEY, Daniel Whittle (1 son of Matthew Barnard Harvey of Witham, Essex). b. Witham 1786; attorney at Feering house, Essex, at Witham and at Colchester 1807–1819; struck his own name off the rolls 1819; contested Colchester 1812 and 1818, M.P. Colchester 1818 to 1820; M.P. Colchester 14 July 1820, election declared void; M.P. Colchester 1826–34; M.P. Southwark 1835–40; registrar of metropolitan public carriages Feb. 1839; commissioner of city of London police Jany. 1840 to death; established the Sunday Times 20 Oct. 1822; proprietor of the True Sun 1833–7; established Weekly True Sun 1833, ran to 1839; commenced the Statesman or Weekly True Sun 5 Jany. 1840, ran to 27 Dec. 1840. d. 26 Old Jewry, city of London 24 Feb. 1863. bur. at Hackney unitarian chapel. Newspaper Press 1 Sep. 1869 pp. 192–3, by Cyrus Redding; I.L.N. 7 March 1863 pp. 253, 254, portrait; G.M. May 1863 pp. 662–3; Times 25 Feb. 1863 p. 5.

Note.—He was admitted a student of the Inner Temple 7 Nov. 1810, but the Benchers refused to call him to the bar in 1819 on account of more than one verdict having gone against him in actions affecting his character; at his request in 1821 they examined into the particulars of the charges brought against him, and came to a resolution that they saw no reason to alter their determination. In 1834 he procured a committee of the House of Commons to be appointed, at the head of which was Daniel O’Connell to examine the evidence and that committee reported in his favour, but the Benchers of the Inner Temple nevertheless refused to call him to the bar.—No call of the House of Commons has been enforced since Harvey’s motion on the pension list 19 April 1836.—He was tried at the Guildhall, London 30 Oct. 1823 for a libel on George iv. in the Sunday Times 9 Feb. 1823, sentenced to pay a fine of £200 and to be imprisoned in the Marshalsea 3 months. Reports of State Trials, n.s. ii, 1–68 (1889).

HARVEY, Rev. Edmund George (1 son of Rev. Wm. Woodis Harvey 1798–1864). b. Penzance 20 Feb. 1828; ed. Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1850; R. of Truro 1860–5; V. of Mullion near Helston, Cornwall 1865 to death; author of Our cruise in the Undine through France, Prussia, etc. By the Captain 1854; Mullyon, its history, scenery and antiquities 1875 and other works, beside several small publications on music. d. Mullion 21 June 1884. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 211–12, 1219.

HARVEY, Sir Edward (youngest son of John Harvey, captain R.N., killed on board the Brunswick 1 June 1794). b. 3 March 1783; first class volunteer on board ‘Brunswick’ 1793; captain 18 April 1811; at bombardment of St. Jean d’ Acre 1840; superintendent at Malta 1848–53; commander in chief at the Nore 1857–60; admiral 9 June 1860; awarded good service pension 21 May 1862; K.C.B. 28 June 1861, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. Walmer, Kent 4 May 1865.

HARVEY, Enoch (eld. son of Thomas Harvey of Liverpool, solicitor). b. Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 1826; solicitor at Liverpool 1849 to death; member of Incorporated Law Soc. of Liverpool 1855 to death, pres. 1881–2; killed at Mersey road station of Cheshire lines, Liverpool 1 Oct. 1890 in 65 year.

HARVEY, Sir George (son of a watchmaker). b. St. Ninians, Stirlingshire, Feb. 1806; ed. in Trustees’ academy, Edin. 1826–8; A.R.S.A. 1826, R.S.A. 1829, president 1864; F.R.S. Edin. 1867; knighted at Windsor castle 26 March 1867; exhibited 24 pictures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–73; exhibited in Edinburgh institution and Scottish academy from 1826; among his pictures were Covenanters preaching 1829; Shakespeare before Sir Thomas Lucy 1837; and First reading of the Bible in the crypt of St. Paul’s 1840; author of Notes of the early history of the Royal Scottish Academy 1870. d. 21 Regent ter. Edinburgh 22 Jany. 1876. A. L. Simpson’s Harvey’s Celebrated paintings (1870); I.L.N. lxviii, 157 (1876), portrait; Graphic, xiii, 161 (1876), portrait.

HARVEY, Sir George Frederick (son of lieut.-gen. Sir John Harvey, K.C.B.) b. 1809; entered Indian C.S. 1827; commissioner and political agent at Agra and Delhi during mutiny 1857–8; retired on annuity 1863; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867. d. 122 Sloane st. London 4 Nov. 1884.

HARVEY, Henry (son of Sir Thomas Harvey, K.C.B., vice admiral, d. 1841). b. 28 April 1812; entered R.N. 15 Dec. 1822 as first class volunteer; signal midshipman to Sir E. Codrington at battle of Navarino 20 Oct. 1827; captain 10 Dec. 1852, retired 24 April 1866; admiral 15 June 1879. d. Walmer 27 May 1887. Times 1 June 1887 p. 10.

HARVEY, Sir John. b. 1778; ensign 80 foot 18 Sep. 1794; A.D.C. and military sec. to major general Dowdeswell in India 1803–6; D.A.G. in Upper Canada 1812–14; governor of New Brunswick 1837, of Newfoundland 20 July 1841, of Nova Scotia 26 June 1846 to death; col. of 59 foot 3 Dec. 1844 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; knighted at King’s lodge, Windsor 15 Dec. 1824; K.C.H. 19 March 1837; K.C.B. 19 July 1838. d. Halifax, Nova Scotia 22 March 1852.

HARVEY, J. B. b. 1792; lessee of theatres at Guernsey, Jersey, Exeter, Devonport, Salisbury, Chelmsford and Weymouth. d. 96 St. Mary st. Weymouth 7 Sep. 1862 aged 70.

HARVEY, Margaret (dau. of John Harvey of Sunderland, surgeon). b. 1768; resided at Newcastle; assisted in a ladies’ school at Bishop Wearmouth, Durham 1818; author of Monody on the princess Charlotte 1812; The lays of the minstrel’s daughter. Newcastle 1814; Raymond de Percy: a romantic melodrame. Bishop Wearmouth 1822, this was performed at Sunderland, April 1822. d. Bishop Wearmouth 18 June 1858.

HARVEY, Rev. Richard. b. 1798; ed. at Eton and St. Cath. coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; R. of Hornsey 22 May 1829 to 1880, where he built three district churches; chaplain to Archbp. of York 1862–74; prebendary of Brownswood in St. Paul’s cath. 1843–58; canon residentiary Gloucester cath. 1858 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 18 June 1847 to death; author of Hymns for young persons [by R. H.] 1834, 2 ed. 1837; Two sermons on keeping the Lord’s Day 1850. d. College green, Gloucester 27 June 1889. bur. same time as his wife at Gloucester cath. 2 July.

HARVEY, Sir Robert Bateson, 1 Baronet (son of Robert Harvey of Langley park, Slough). b. Langley park 17 Nov. 1825; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 31 May 1844; a keen deerstalker; kept steeplechasers; M.P. Bucks. 1863–68 and 1874–85; cr. baronet 28 Nov. 1868; master of Norfolk harriers 1869. d. Langley park, Slough 23 March 1887. Baily’s Mag. xxvi, 311–12 (1875), portrait.

HARVEY, Sir Robert John (eld. son of John Harvey of Thorpe near Norwich 1755–1842). b. Thorpe 21 Feb. 1785; studied at Marburg, Leipsic, Hesse Cassel and Valenciennes; ensign 53 foot 8 Oct. 1803; studied at military college, High Wycombe 1807–9; served in Peninsular war, rode from Paris to Lisbon with despatches 1400 miles in 14 days; lieut.-col. on half pay 25 Oct. 1815; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 6 Feb. 1817; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; colonel of 2 West India regt. 15 June 1848 to death; general 17 July 1859; F.R.S., F.S.A. d. Mousehold heath near Norwich 18 June 1860. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii, 186–8 (1861).

HARVEY, Sir Robert John Harvey, 1 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. 16 April 1817; sheriff of Norfolk 1863; M.P. for Thetford 12 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868 when it was disfranchised by Reform act of 1867; created baronet 8 Dec. 1868; shot himself with a pistol at Crown point hall, Norwich 19 July 1870.

HARVEY, Thomas. b. Barnsley, Yorkshire 1812; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1822–5; chemist Leeds about 1837–67; in the West Indies enquiring into condition of negroes 1836–7; in Finland aiding the unarmed inhabitants 1856; visited Jamaica about the Gordon riots 1866; visited the Mennonites in Russia and aided them to emigrate to Canada 1867; went to Canada to see the Friends 1884; author with J. Sturge of The West Indies in 1837, 1838; with W. Brewin of Jamaica in 1866, a narrative of a tour 1867 and 12 pamphlets. d. Headingley near Leeds 25 Dec. 1884. bur. Adel near Leeds 29 Dec. Times 30 Dec. 1884 p. 4; J. N. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth sch. (1889) 12–13.

HARVEY, Thomas Hingston (3 son of Rev. William Woodis Harvey 1798–1864). b. Penzance 26 Feb. 1831; solicitor at Truro 1855–63; practised at Constantinople 1863 to death; solicitor to the Pacha of Egypt; accompanied admiral Hobart to Syra in Crete to advise him on international law 1872; author of The tourist’s guide through Cornwall. Truro 1861; Harkylogy. Mr. T. Smitheram’s account of Archæological Association 1862. d. Pera, Constantinople 23 April 1872. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 213, 1220.

HARVEY, Rev. William (4 son of admiral Sir Thomas Harvey, K.C.B. 1775–1841). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Ox. 10 March 1842 aged 18; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; compiled The active list of flag officers and captains of the Royal navy, with progress of officers from entrance into the service 1861, 5 ed. 1865, ed. by W. Arthur 1868. d. Walmer, Kent 18 March 1865.

HARVEY, William (son of the keeper of the baths at Westgate). b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 13 July 1796; apprentice to Thomas Bewick 1810; studied drawing under B. R. Haydon and anatomy under Sir C. Bell 1817; wood engraver 1822–24, designer for copper plate and wood engravers 1824 to death; engraved on wood in imitation of copper plate, Haydon’s Assassination of Dentatus, the most ambitious block which had been cut in England 1821; his masterpieces are his illustrations to Northcote’s Fables 1828–33 and to Lane’s Thousand and one nights 1838–40; he also illustrated 30 other works 1829–68. d. Prospect lodge, Richmond, Surrey 13 Jany. 1866. Chatto’s Treatise on wood engraving (1861) 527–34; I.L.N. xlviii, 97 (1866), portrait.

HARVEY, William. b. 1813 or 1814; a founder of Sussex Archæological Soc. 1846; had a cabinet of coins, chiefly of those found in Sussex; F.S.A. 3 March 1853. d. Lewes 22 April 1869. Numismatic Chronicle, vol. x (1870), Proceedings p. 13.

HARVEY, William. Surgeon in London; hon. superintendent Islington reformatory; wrote many articles under pseudonym of Aleph in The City Press; author of The old city and its highways and byways, By Aleph 1865. d. 48 Lonsdale sq. Islington, London 18 March 1873 aged 77.

HARVEY, William. b. 1807 or 1808; ed. at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1830; M.R.C.S. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1853; surgeon to Royal dispensary for diseases of the ear 1846 to death; F. Med. Chir. Soc. 1841; one of 3 chief aurists in London for many years; prescribed a diet for William Banting which reduced his weight from 202 lbs. to 156 lbs. 1862–3, and originated Banting; aural surgeon Great Northern hospital 186-to death; author of The ear in health and disease, with remarks on treatment of deafness 1854, 4 ed. 1865; On rheumatism, gout and neuralgic headache 1857, 4 ed. 1865; On corpulence in relation to disease 1872; On deafness and noises in the ear, 7 ed. 1876. d. 3 George st. Hanover sq. London 5 Dec. 1876. Medical Times 23 Dec. 1876 p. 717; Proc. Med. Chir. Soc. viii, 198–9 (1880).

HARVEY, William Henry (son of Joseph Massey Harvey of Limerick, merchant, a quaker). b. Summerville near Limerick 5 Feb. 1811; ed. at Ballitore school, Kildare 1824–7; M.D. Dublin univ. 1844; treasurer and registrar general at Cape of Good Hope 1836–42; became the chief authority on algæ; keeper of the Herbarium to univ. of Dublin 30 March 1844; professor of botany to Royal Dublin society; bapt. St. Mark’s ch. Dublin 25 Feb. 1846; professor of botany in univ. of Dublin 1856; lecturer at Irish museum of industry about 1856; F.R.S. 3 June 1864; author of Genera of South African plants, Capetown 1838, 2 ed. 1868; A manual of British Algæ 1841; Phycologia Britannica, a history of British seaweeds 4 vols. 1846–51; The seaside book 1849, 4 ed. 1857; Phycologia Australica 5 vols. 1858–63 and other books. d. Torquay 15 May 1866. Memoir of W. H. Harvey (1869), portrait.

HARVEY, Rev. William Wigan (2 son of George Daniel Harvey, commissioner of bankruptcy). b. Great Stanmore, Middlesex 1810; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1855; fellow of King’s 1831, divinity lecturer 1836–44 and 1862–3, Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1833; R. of Buckland, Herts. 1844–72; R. of Ewelme near Oxford, Dec. 1871 to death; author of Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Vindex Catholicus 1841; The history and theology of the three creeds 1854; Sancti Irenæi quæ supersunt Opera 1857 and many sermons, pamphlets and reviews. d. Ewelme 7 May 1883. Hansard’s Debates, ccix, 291–2, 772, 1153, 1673, 1720, 1946 (1872); Annual Register (1872) 34–6.

HARVEY, Rev. William Woodis. b. Alverton Vean, Penzance 15 June 1798; Wesleyan missionary in Hayti to 1824; servitor at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1835; V. of Truro 1839–60; prebendary of Exeter 1859–64; author of Sketches of Hayti 1827 and of many single sermons. d. Torquay 6 Oct. 1864. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 213–15, 1220; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 332.

HARWOOD, Charles (son of Rev. Thomas Harwood of Shepperton, Middlesex). Barrister I.T. 20 June 1828; recorder of Shrewsbury, Dec. 1839 to death; judge of county courts, circuit 50 (Kent), March 1847 to death. d. The Leas, Folkestone 25 Sep. 1866.

HARWOOD, Isabella Neil (dau. of the succeeding). b. 1838 or 1839; author of Abbot’s Cleve, a novel 1864; Carleton Grange 1866; Raymond’s Heroine 1867; Kathleen 1869; The Heir expectant 1870; author under pseudonym of Ross Neil of the plays Lady Jane Grey. Inez or the bride of Portugal 1871 (produced at Gaiety theatre, London under title of Loyal Love 13 Aug. 1887); The Cid, The King and the Angel, Duke for a day 1874; Elfinella (produced at Princess’s theatre 1876). Lord and Lady Russell 1876, Arabella Stuart, The heir of Lynne, Tasso 1879; Andrea the painter, Claudia’s choice, Orestes, Pandora 1883. d. South Bank, Baldslow road, Hastings 29 May 1888. Saturday Review 2 June 1888 p. 644.

HARWOOD, Philip, b. Bristol 1809; articled to a solicitor; studied at Univ. of Edin.; pastor of Unitarian chapel, Bridport 1835; assistant minister at South place chapel, London 1841; sub-editor of The Examiner, of The Spectator, of the Morning Chronicle about 1849–54, of the Saturday Review from date of first number 3 Nov. 1855 and editor Aug. 1868 to Dec. 1883; author of Materialism in religion: or religious forms and theological formulas 1840; History of the Irish rebellion of 1798, 1844, 2 ed. 1848 and many lectures and sermons. d. South Bank, Baldslow road, Hastings 10 Dec. 1887. Saturday Review 17 Dec. 1887 p. 188.

HASELDEN, Adolphus Frederick. b. 1817; Assoc. Pharmaceutical Soc. of Gt. Britain, member of council 1859, V.P. 1869, P. 1871–3, contributed many papers to the Journal; author of A translation of the Pharmacopoeia Collegii regalis medicorum Londinensis 1837; Notes on the British Pharmacopoeia, showing additions 1864. d. Shaftesbury cottage, Croydon 4 Feb. 1880. The Pharmaceutical Journal 7 Feb. 1880 pp. 624, 631.

HASELL, Elizabeth Julia (2 dau. of Edward Williams Hasell of Dalemain near Penrith, Cumberland 1796–1872). b. 17 Jany. 1830; taught herself Latin, Greek, Spanish and Portuguese; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. and Quarterly Review from about 1858; author of The Rock, and other short lectures on passages of Holy Scripture 1867; Calderon and Tasso in Foreign Classics for English readers 2 vols. 1879 and 1882; Short family prayers 1879, 2 ed. 1884; Bible Partings 1883; Via Crucis or meditations for Passion and Easter Tide 1884. d. Dalemain 14 Nov. 1887.

HASLAM, Samuel Holker. F.L.S. 1836; made a collection of plants and insects, which he gave to Natural Hist. Soc. of Kendal 1854. d. Woodhouse, Milnthorpe, Westmoreland 13 April 1856. Proc. Linnean Soc. 1856 p. xlii.

HASLEM, John. b. Carrington near Manchester 1808; flower painter and figure painter; painted for Duke of Sussex a head of Lord Byron for presentation to King of Greece; exhibited 37 enamels at R.A. and 14 at Suffolk st. 1836–65; painted a set of enamels in imitation of Petitot, which were shown at South Kensington 1862 and 1865 as the work of Petitot; author of The old Derby china factory 1876. d. Derby 30 April 1884 aged 76.

HASSALL, Richard. M.R.C.S. 1844; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1852; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1875; examining physician R. hospital for consumption Ventnor; in practice at 4 Suffolk place, Pall Mall, London; author of Cholera, its nature and treatment 1854; Poisoning by chloride of zinc. d. 60 St. George’s sq. London 13 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. lxviii, 167 (1876).

HASSALL, Walter Willis. Clerk to Mr. Foster, solicitor, Wells; reporter for Dorset county chronicle, Dorchester; resident reporter Southern Times, Weymouth; editor and proprietor with Mr. Atkins of Weymouth Guardian to death; while walking along railway at Weymouth knocked down by train and killed 23 Dec. 1868. Newspaper Press, iii, 59 (1869).

HASSARD, Michael Dobbyn (younger son of Richard Hassard, captain of Waterford militia). b. Waterford, Oct. 1817; ed. at Waterford school and Trin. coll. Dublin, gold medallist 1838, B.A. 1852; M.P. for city of Waterford 1857–65; acted each session as chairman of committees; paid referee of House of Commons 1866 to death; sheriff of Waterford 1853. d. Glenville, co. Waterford 7 April 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog., i, 393 (1869).

HASTED, Rev. Henry (son of an apothecary). b. Bury St. Edmunds 17 Sep. 1771; ed. at Bury gr. sch. and Ch. coll. Cam., 6 wr. and B.A. 1793; fell. of his coll.; preacher of St. Mary’s, Bury 1802–42; R. of Braiseworth, Suffolk 1812 to death; R. of Horninger, Suffolk 1814 to death; F.L.S. 1810; F.R.S. 1812; author of A course of lectures for Lent. Bury 1838; Sermons for Lent and Easter 1852. d. Bury St. Edmunds 26 Nov. 1852.

HASTIE, Alexander (son of Robert Hastie of Glasgow, merchant). b. 1805; a merchant at Glasgow; lord provost 1846–48; M.P. for Glasgow 1847–57. d. 1864.

HASTIE, Archibald (son of W. Hastie). b. 1791; coach builder and East India agent in London; a director of the East India docks and chief manager of them; M.P. for Paisley 17 March 1836 to death; the owner of Burns’ punch bowl, kept the anniversaries of the poet’s birthday as high festivals. d. Edinburgh 9 Nov. 1857. Times 11 Nov. 1857 p. 12.

HASTINGS, Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Mure Rawdon Hastings, 4 Marquis of. b. Cavendish sq. London 22 July 1842; succeeded his bro. as 4 marquis 17 Jany. 1851; ed. at Eton; succeeded his mother in barony of Grey de Ruthyn 18 Nov. 1858; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 1860; commenced horse racing 1862; purchased horses at unheard of prices and backed them for large amounts; trained his horses with John Day at Danebury; lost a fabulous sum on Kangaroo which he purchased in 1865 for £12,000 highest price ever paid for a racehorse; lost heavily on Lady Elizabeth in the Derby 1868; struck out the Earl from racing for the St. Leger 1868; lived most extravagantly and gambled; master of the Quorn hounds 1866; won the Cambridgeshire with Ackworth 1864, the 1000 guineas with Repulse 1866; lost £103,000 when Hermit won the Derby 1867. d. Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1868. Reg. and mag. of biog., i, 44–6 (1869); Rice’s Hist. of British Turf, i, 354–91 (1879); Baily’s Mag. xi, 279–81 (1866), portrait; Sporting Review, lx 396–400 (1868), lxi 31–38 (1869).

HASTINGS, Jacob Astley, 22 Baron (eld. son of Sir Jacob Henry Astley, 5 baronet 1756–1817). b. 13 Nov. 1797; M.P. for West Norfolk, Dec. 1832 to July 1837; contested West Norfolk 29 July 1837; summoned to parliament as Baron Hastings (the abeyance having been terminated in his favour) by writ dated 18 May 1841. d. of paralysis at 45 York terrace, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1859.

HASTINGS, Jacob Henry Delaval Astley, 23 Baron (elder son of the preceding). b. 21 May 1822; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; cornet 2 life guards 17 March 1843, lieut. 28 Jany. 1848 to 23 May 1851 when he sold out; hon. col. Norfolk artillery militia 23 Jany. 1860 to death; master of the Eastern Norfolk hounds 1862 to death. d. Melton Constable, Norfolk 8 March 1871. Baily’s Mag. xix, 287 (1871), portrait.

HASTINGS, Sir Charles (6 son of Rev. James Hastings, who d. 1856). b. Ludlow, Salop 11 Jany. 1794; ed. at Univ. of Edin. 1815, M.D. 1818; practised at Worcester 1818 to death; physician to Worcester infirmary to 16 Jany. 1862 when presented with piece of plate value 600 guineas; founded the Provincial (afterwards the British) medical and surgical association 19 July 1832, president 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; published A treatise on inflammation of the lungs 1820; Illustrations of the natural history of Worcestershire 1834; founded Midland medical and surgical reporter 1828; member of general medical council 13 Nov. 1858 to 13 Nov. 1863. d. Barnard’s Green near Malvern, Worcs. 30 July 1866. Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1865) 17–22, portrait; Lancet, ii, 185–8 (1851), portrait, ii, 139 (1866).

HASTINGS, Sir Charles Abney-, 2 Baronet. b. 1 Oct. 1792; succeeded 30 Sep. 1823; assumed additional name of Abney; sheriff of Derbyshire 1825; M.P. for Leicester 1826–31. d. 6 Cavendish sq. London 30 July 1858.

HASTINGS, Francis Decimus (brother of Sir Charles Hastings 1794–1866). b. 1795; entered navy 19 Aug. 1807, served in Syrian and Peninsula wars; B.A. of Trin. coll. Cam. 1828; captain 4 Nov. 1840; V.A. on half pay 2 Dec. 1865. d. Barbourne house, Worcester 21 May 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. ii, 42 (1869).

HASTINGS, George Fowler (2 son of 11 Earl of Huntingdon 1779–1828). b. 28 Nov. 1814; entered navy 3 Sep. 1824; in Chinese war 1841; captain 31 Jany. 1845; commanded the Curaçoa during Russian war; superintendent of Haslar hospital and Clarence victualling yard 1858–63; R.A. 27 April 1863, V.A. 10 Sep. 1869; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; commander in chief in the Pacific 21 Nov. 1866 to 1 Nov. 1869; commander in chief at the Nore 11 Feb. 1873 to 14 Feb. 1876. d. 41 Stanhope gardens, London 21 March 1876.

HASTINGS, Rev. Henry James (brother of Sir Charles Hastings 1794–1866). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; C. of Martley, Worcs. 1820–31 and 1851–56; R. of Areley Kings near Stourport 1831–56; R. of Martley 1856 to death; author of Parochial sermons from Advent to Trinity Sunday 1845; The Indian mutinies a fresh motive for church missions 1857; A plea for the prayer book as it is, with remarks on its history 1858 and other books. d. Martley rectory 12 May 1875.