Social Victorians/People/Hastings

Also Known As

• Family name: Astley
• Marquis of Hastings
• Marchioness of Hastings
  • Florence Paget Rawdon-Hastings Chetwynd
• Baron Hastings
  • George Manners Astley, 20th Baron (22 December 1875 – 18 September 1904)
• Baroness Hastings
  • Elizabeth Evelyn Harbord (17 April 1880 – 19 February 1956)

Demographics

• Nationality: British

Family

• Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Rawdon-Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings (22 July 1842 – 10 November 1868)
• Florence Cecilia Paget Rawdon-Hastings (1842–1907)
• George Chetwynd, 4th Baronet of Brocton Hall (31 May 1849 – 10 March 1917)

• George Manners Astley, 20th Baron Hastings, 10th Baronet Astley (4 April 1857 – 18 September 1904)
• Elizabeth Evelyn Harbord Astley (23 February 1860 – 19 February 1956)

1. Albert Edward Delavel Astley, 21st Lord Hastings (24 November 1882 – 18 January 1956)
2. Jacob John Astley (5 March 1884 – 26 September 1917)
3. Charles Melton Astley (5 May 1885 – 13 August 1960)
4. Alexandra Rhoda Astley (28 September 1886 – 20 April 1918)
5. Bridget Astley (8 March 1889 – 2 March 1906)
6. Hester Winifred Astley (17 May 1899 – 1980)

Timeline

1862, Henry-Rawdon-Hastings and Alice March Phillips de Lisle became engaged.

1864 July 16, Henry Rawdon-Hastings and Florence Paget married.

1868 November 10, Henry Rawdon-Hastings died, and the marquessate ended.

1870, Florence Paget Rawdon-Hastings and George Chetwynd married.

1880 April 17, George Manners Astley, 20th Baron Hastings, and Elizabeth Evelyn Harbord married.

1897 July 2, Lord and Lady Hastings as well as the Marchioness of Hastings and a Miss Chetwynd all attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

Elizabeth Astley, Baroness of Hastings (at 204) and George Manners Astley, 20th Baron Hastings (at 425) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball as did Florence Chetwynd, Marchioness of Hastings and Miss Chetwynd, who are treated on the page for Florence Chetwynd, Marchioness of Hastings.

Lady Hastings

Elizabeth Astley, Baroness of Hastings (at 204) was dressed as Lucy Ashton in a "gown of white duchesse satin of the Queen Anne period, embroidered in a conventional design of marguerites in silver, diamonds, and pearls."

Lord Hastings

George Manners Astley, 20th Baron Hastings (at 425) went as Master of Ravenswood, wearing "black velvet tunic, trimmed jet; full breeches, high boots."

Notes and Questions

1. Both Henry Rawdon-Hastings and Florence Paget had been engaged to others before they married each other, she to Henry Chaplin.