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George Augustus Francis Rawdon-Hastings
2nd Marquess of Hastings, (1808-1844)
Born 4 February 1808 St.James's Place
Died 13 January 1844 Southampton
Buried 22 January 1844 Castle Donington
Married 1 August 1831 Wolston-cum-Brandon
Barbara Yelverton, 20th Baroness Grey de Ruthyn,
daughter of Henry Edward Yelverton, 19th Lord Grey de Ruthyn
and Anna Maria Kelham
Born 29 May 1810 Brandon House
Died 19 November 1858 Rome
Buried Rome
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On 4 February 1808 he was born in St.James's Place and baptised on
7 April at St.George's, Hanover Square, with the Prince of Wales, the future
King George IV, as one of the sponsors. He was styled Earl of Rawdon from
1817 till 1826 when he became 2nd Marquess of Hastings. In 1830 and 1831
he was Lord of the Bedchamber. On 1 August 1831 he married Barbara, suo
jure Baroness Grey, and so was on 8 September 1831 Bearer of the Golden
Spurs at the Coronation of William IV, which was in right of his wife,
such office having been hereditary in the family of Grey. On 8 January
1840 his mother died, making him Earl of Loudoun, and since that date he
possessed not only a peerage in England, Scotland and Ireland but also
one in Great Britain and another in the United Kingdom.
He was deeply incensed at the inexcusable insult put upon his sister,
Lady Flora Hastings, who, on 5 July 1839, died at Buckingham Palace of
an enlarged liver, having been subjected to the cruel slander of being
pregnant. To this insult Charles Greville aptly refers as a "disgraceful
and mischievous scandal which cannot fail to lower the character of the
Court in the eyes of the world". A Whig till after the Reform Bill, and
then as a Conservative, he
supported the vote of want of confidence in Melbourne's Government
in 1841. Aged nearly thirty-six, he died at Southampton on 13 January 1844
and was buried on 22 January at Castle Donington.
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