George Manners Astley, 20th Baron Hastings

George Manners Astley was born in 1857 at Melton Constable Hall[1] in Norfolk, the son of Sir Delaval Loftus Astley, 18th Baron Hastings and Hon.

The Anglo-Norman Hastings barony was established in the year 1295, but was dormant from 1389, with multiple claimants, and then became abeyant from 1542.

[2] George Manners Astley was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge.

[2][5] Hastings is famous as the breeder and owner of the Thoroughbred racehorse and sire Melton,[6] winner in 1885 of both The Derby and the St. Leger Stakes.

[2] His wife Elizabeth Harbord is commemorated in the name of Harbord Terrace, a row of workers' houses just west of the northern seat of the Lords Hastings at Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland.