475
HASTINGS.
Waldegrave and Chas. Henry Paget, employed off the coast of Ireland – 16 March, 1830, to the Wellesley 74, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maltland – 16 Aug. 1831, to the Warspite 76, Capt. Chas. Talbot, in South America – 4 June, 1832, to the Rattlesnake 28, Capt. Chas. Graham, in which vessel he came home from the latter station and was paid off in Nov. 1833 – 17 Nov. 1834 and 20 April, 1835, as First, to the Pique 36, and Champion 18, Capts. Hon. Henry John Rous, Robert Fair, and Geo. St. Vincent King, employed off Lisbon and in the West Indies – and, 18 July, 1837, to the command of the Pickle schooner, on the North America and West India station. He was superseded from the last-named vessel in March, 1839, and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Hast has for several years been in command of a steamer belonging to the Royal West India Mail Packet Company. He married, 22 Aug. 1840, Mary, daughter of John Warrington, Esq., by whom he has issue. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
HASTINGS. (Captain, 1840. f-p., 19; h-p., 21.)
Francis Decimus Hastings entered the Navy, 19 Aug. 1807, as Third-cl. Vol., on board the Téméraire 98, Capts. Sir Chas. Hamilton and Edw. Sneyd Clay, successively stationed in the Channel and Baltic. In June, 1809, having attained the rating of Midshipman a few months previously, he removed to the Amethyst 36, Capt. Jacob Walton, with whom he appears to have been employed on Home service until wrecked in Plymouth Sound 16 Feb. 1811. He then joined, for a short period, the Acasta 40, Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr; after which we find him, until Aug. 1815, employed, on the Spanish, North American, Jamaica, and Home stations, latterly as Master’s Mate, in the Iris 38, Capt. Hood Hanway Christian, St. Domingo 74, flag-ship of Sir John Borlase Warren, Emulous brig, Capt. Wm. M‘Kenzie Godfrey, and Argo 44, and Ville de Paris 110, bearing the flags of Rear-Admiral Wm. Brown and Lord Keith. With the exception of a few months in 1818-19, and until officially promoted on 18 Nov. in the latter year, Mr. Hastings next served, alternately as Acting-Lieutenant and Admiralty Midshipman, on board the Charwell sloop, Capt. Allen Otty, Icarus 10, Capt. Hon. Chas. Orlando Bridgeman, and Carnation 18, Capts. Henry Shiffner, Wm. Nugent Glascock, and Roger Hall. His succeeding appointments were, as First-Lieutenant – 14 April, 1831, to the Stag 46, Capts. Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge and Nich. Lockyer, on the Lisbon station, where he remained until superseded in Aug. 1834 – and 31 Jan. 1835, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings. Being awarded a second promotal commission 10 Jan. 1837, he was nominated, 25 July following, Second-Captain of the Edinburgh 72, Capt. Wm. Wilmott Henderson, with whom, after again serving with the force off Lisbon, he proceeded to the Mediterranean. For his conduct in the operations on the coast of Syria, where he displayed the greatest coolness and gallantry in command of the boats of the latter ship and of the Hastings 72, in an attempt made to remove the powder from the castle at Beyrout, and was slightly wounded at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, Capt. Hastings was advanced to the rank he now holds 4 Nov. 1840.[1] He has since been unemployed.
Capt. Hastings was left a widower 31 July, 1846.
HASTINGS. (Captain, 1845. f-p., 18; h-p., 5.)
The Honourable George Fowler Hastings, born 28 Nov. 1813, is second son (by Frances, third daughter of the Rev. Rich. Chaloner Cobb, Rector of Great Marlow, co. Bucks) of Hans Francis, 11th Earl of Huntingdon, a Captain in the R.N. (1824), who was for some time Governor of Dominica, and died 9 Dec. 1828. He is brother of the present Earl; and brother-in-law of Commanders Henry Parker and Chas. Calmady Dent, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 3 Sept. 1824; passed his examination 7 Jan. 1832; and was promoted, 7 Jan. 1833, to the rank of Lieutenant. His appointments in the latter capacity were – 25 June, 1833, to the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Thos. Hastings – 13 May, 1834, to the Revenge 74, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Wm. Elliott – and, 8 Sept. 1837, as First, to the Rhadamanthus steam-vessel, Capt. Arthur Wakefield, on the same station. Obtaining a second promotal commission 30 June, 1838, he was nominated, 5 Jan. 1839, to an Inspectorship in the Coast Guard, and, 16 Aug. 1841, to the command of the Harlequin 16. While in that sloop, Capt. Hastings, besides sharing in the closing operations of the Chinese war, acquired the public thanks of the Commander-in-Chief for his conduct in leading her boats, in conjunction with those of the Wanderer and Diana, in an attack on the piratical towns of Murdoo and Quallo Batto, in the island of Sumatra. He was promoted to the rank of Captain, on the paying off of the Harlequin, 31 Jan. 1845; and has since been unemployed. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.
HASTINGS, Kt. (Captain, 1830. f-p., 32; h-p., 12.)
Sir Thomas Hastings, born 3 July, 1790, is eldest son of the Rev. Jas. Hastings, Rector and Impropriator of the living of Martley, and Patron of Areley Regis, co. Worcester. His family, of which the celebrated Warren Hastings was the head, is a branch of that of Hastings of Dalesford, in the latter shire, and of Yelford Hastings, co. Oxford.
This officer entered the Navy, in Sept. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Princess Royal 98, commanded in the Channel by Capts. Jas. Vashon, Herbert Sawyer, Dan. Oliver Guion, and Robt. Carthew Reynolds; and, from Oct. 1804 until Sept. 1807, served, as Midshipman, on the latter and on the north coast of Spain, Cadiz, and West India stations, in the Illustrious 74, Capts. Sir Chas. Hamilton, Michael Seymour, Wm. Shield, and Wm. Robt. Broughton. His name, during the two following years, was successively borne on the books of the Salvador del Mundo, Capt. Isaac Wolley, lying at Plymouth, Texel and Ardent 64’s, flagships at Leith of his former Captain, the late Admiral Vashon, and Leyden 64, Capt. Thos. Ussher. As a reward for his conduct in command of a gunboat at the siege of Flushing, Mr. Hastings was promoted, 17 Jan. 1810, to a Lieutenancy in the Badger 10, Capt. John Lampen Manley, under whom we understand he assisted, as First of that vessel, in causing the destruction, off the river Ems, of the French privateer La Comtesse d’Emerieau of 11 guns and 110 men. His succeeding appointments were – 7 June, 1811, to the Hyacinth 26, Capts. Thos. Ussher and Alex. Renton Sharpe – 7 April, 1813, to the Undaunted 38, Capts. Thos. Ussher and Chas. Thurlow Smith, in which frigate he continued until Nov. 1815 – 28 June 1817, to the Icarus 10, Capt. Hon. Chas. Orlando Bridgeman, fitting for the South American station, whence he invalided in Jan. 1819 – and 27 Oct. 1821, as Senior, to the Euryalus frigate, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, attached to the force in the Mediterranean. On the night of 29 April, 1812, we find Mr. Hastings commanding the Hyacinth’s pinnace, under Capt. Ussher, and acquiring the greatest praise for his undaunted courage, in a brilliant boat-attack on the enemy’s privateers and batteries in the mole of Malaga; an enterprise which, although partially successful, terminated in a loss to the British, out of 149 officers and men, of 15 killed and 53 wounded. He also, in the course of the following month, assisted at the reduction of the strong castle of Almuñécar; and, on 18 Aug. 1813, he served in the boats of the Undaunted and of a small squadron in a very gallant attack made on the batteries at Cassis, where, after sustaining a loss of 4 men killed and 16 wounded, the British, in four hours, succeeded in capturing three heavy gun-boats, and 26 vessels laden with merchandise
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, pp. 2609, 2901.
