Warner Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon

Lieutenant-Colonel Warner Francis John Plantagenet Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon DL (8 July 1868 – 5 April 1939) was a British peer,[1] and Deputy Lieutenant of King's County, Ireland.

[4] He was commissioned an officer in the 4th (Queen's County Militia) Battalion, Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, later transferred to the 3rd (King's County Militia) Battalion and resigned with the rank of major in February 1900 when he was found unfit for active service in the Second Boer War.

[9] Lord Huntingdon settled in England by 1925, where he lived at Burton Hall, near Loughborough, Leicestershire.

[10] He died in 1939,[11] aged 70, and was buried in the parish churchyard of St Helen's, Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

[citation needed] He was a member of Lough Derg Corinthian Yacht Club in 1896.

Hastings coat of arms