George Hastings (East Worcestershire MP)

George Woodyatt Hastings (25 September 1825 – 21 October 1917) was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1892.

From 1857 to 1868, he was General Secretary of the National Association for Promotion of Social Science, and was Chairman of their Council from 1868 to 1883.

[2] Hastings stood for parliament unsuccessfully in Beverley at by-election in 1854,[3] and in West Worcestershire at the 1874 general election.

[6] He held the seat until 1892,[6] when he was expelled from the House of Commons and convicted of fraudulent conversion.

[7] Hastings married firstly Catherine Anna Mence, daughter of the Rev.