Hans Francis Hastings, 12th Earl of Huntingdon (14 August 1779 – 9 December 1828) was a British Royal Navy officer and peer.
[1] They had four sons: and four daughters For a distant kinsman (6th cousin) of the tenth Earl of Huntingdon, the successful pursuit of a claim to the peerage, which had fallen into abeyance, was an arduous affair which finally succeeded in 1819.
14 Aug 1779, d. 9 Dec 1828) On 31 March 1820, Huntingdon's wife Frances died, and on 28 September the same year, he married Eliza Mary, daughter of Joseph Bettesworth of Ryde and widow of Alexander Thistlethwayte.
He died at Green Park, Youghal, at the age of 49, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, Francis Theophilus Henry Hastings.
His widow remarried on 26 April 1838 to Colonel Sir Thomas Noel Harris KCH and died on 9 November 1846 in Boulogne, France.