Hastings family.

Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, noted Puritan politician and a heir presumptive to the crown. During the Northern Rebellion (1569-1570), he was appointed a custodian of Mary Queen of Scots (1569), and made Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire and Rutland and, in 1572 Lord President of the North. In 1573 he was constituted Lord Lieutenant of the counties of Leicester and Rutland and York, Northumerland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, and bishopric of Durham. In 1580 he was appointed to a commission that inquired into the recusancy of the gentry. His younger brother George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntington (ca. 1540-1604) held local offices in Derbyshire, and played little role in national politics.

Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon (1586-1642), was Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire in 1607-1642, and Rutland in 1614-1642.

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