188 HASTINGS. 1418; el. KG. 12 and inst. 13 June 1812; Gov. Gen. and Commander in Chief of the Forces of India, l3l3-*28. In Nov. 1814 lie declared war against Nopaul which resulted in u final treaty with the Gurkha State in March 181G. Having m., 12 July 1801, at (Lady Perth's house in Grosvenor s. j. St. Geo. Han. sq., Flora, sun jure Coustess of Loudoun [S.], da. of .lames (Mure-Campbbll), 5th Eahl OK Loudous [S.], by Flora, da. of John Maulkod, he was. on 1:1 Fob. 1817, cr. VISCOUNT LOUDOUN, FAKL OF RAWDON, and MARQUESS OF HASTINGS, receiving a vote of thanks from Pari, for his services. In 1817 he carried out the extirpation of the Pindari cs, therein' establishing '■ the supremacy of the Hritish power throughout India. V.i G.C.B., 11 Oct. 1818; G.C.H., 1818. In 1819 he was thanked by Pari, and received £60.000 from the Fast India Company for the purchase of an hereditary estate. Owing to a difference with that Company he resigned the office of Gov. Gen. in 1822 and was in 1821 made Gov. of Malta. He d. 28 Nov. 1826, aged 71, on board ship, in Baia bay, off Naples, and was bur. at Malta. Will dat, 3 Feb. 1826, and pr. 31 July 1828. His widow, who was b. Aug. 1780, d. S Jan. 1840, at Kelburne Castle, and was bir. at Loudoun. [Francis George Augustus Rawdon-Hastings, styled Loud Mauch- line and Rawdon, 1st s. and h. ap., 4. 22 Jan. and d. 13 Feb. 1807, au infant, v.p. Marquessate. 1 i2 audio. George AUGUSTUS Francis (RaW- jj don-IIastinos), Marquess or Hastings, A-c., also Haul I ig.)(. or Moiua,&c. [1.], 2d lait only surv. s. and U.,6. 4 Feb. Barony. • " " and bap. 7 April 1808, at. St. Geo. Han. sq., styled Haul 1 of Kawuon, 1816-26; sue. to the peerage, 28 Nov. 1826; • vv - J Lord of the Bedchamber, 1830-37; Bearer of the Golden Spurs() at the coronation of Will. IV., 8 Sep. 1831. He M., 1 Aug. 1831, at Wolston-cum-Br.mdon, co. Warwick, Barbara, mo jure Bahonbss Grey de Ruthyn, only da. and h- of Henry Edward (Gould, afterwards Yelvkiiton), Lord Grey de Ruthyn, by Anna Maria, da. of William Kkt.HaM, By the death of his mother, 8 Jan. IS 40,(") he sue. to a Scotch peerage, becoming Eaul of Loudoun, &c. [S.] He d. at Southampton!' 1 ) 13 Jan. 1844, aged 31, and was bur. 22 at Castle Donington, co. Leicester. Will pr. 25 May 1841. His widow, who was b. at Brandon House, 20 May, and bap. HI Sep. 1810, at Wolston-cum-Brandon, m., 9 April 1845, at Harbledown, co. Kent, Hastings-Reginald Henry, who by Royal lie., 3 Jan. 1S49, took the name of Yehxrton in lieu of that of Henri/, and who afterwards became an Admiral, R.N., and G.C.B., and d. 24 July 187S, and was bur. at Brixham, Devon. She d. (of apoplexy) at Rome 19 Nov. 1858, aged 47, and was bur. 25th in the English cemetery there. (a) "Nat. Bioy." [1891] to which invaluable work the Editor is frequently indebted. The following notice is also therefrom. Hastings was a tall athletic man with a stately figure and impressive manner. As n politican he is chiefly remembered
- is the frieud and confident of the Prince of Wales, llis capacity for rule was
remarkable and as a skilful soldier and an able administrator he is not likely to be forgotten." It is also added that " in consequence of his habitual extravagance, Hastings left his family badly oil and in 1827 the East India Company voted a further sum of £20,000 [in addition to the £60,000 mentioned in the text] for the benefit of his sou." There is a clever " Ode to Lord Moira " by G. Ellis in the poetry of " The Anti-Jacobin," formed on Horace's ode " Jn Barinem." A sketch of him (by Gillray) as " Lord Longbow, the Alarmist, discovering the Miseries of Ireland," accompanies it, in the edit, (by C. Edmonds) of 1854. ( b ) This was in right of bis wife such otlice having been hereditary in the family of Grey. ( c ) Since that date (1840) to 1868 the Marquesses of Hastings possessed not only a peerage in England, Scotland, and Ireland (see vol. i, p. 8, note " c," sub "Aber- com "), but, in addition thereto, a peerage (the Barony of Kawdon cr. 1783) in Great Britain and one (the Marquessate of Hastings, &c., cr. 1817), in the United Kingdom. C) His death is said to have been hastened by the insult put upon his sister, Lady Flora Hastings, which caused her death 5 July 1839, at Buckingham Palace. This insult Charles Greville very aptly calls a " disgraceful and mischievous scandid which cannot fail to lower the character of the Court in the eyes of the world."
