There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Hastings family headed by the Earl of Huntingdon, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
He was the grandson of Sir Edward Hastings, younger son of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon (see Earl of Huntingdon for earlier history of the family).
Hastings married Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Pointz, but had no children, and the title became extinct on his death in 1668.
Margaret remarried Samuel Gorges, later a High Court judge in Ireland.
Her first marriage was apparently a happy one: at her death, she left Samuel a portrait of Richard.