George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings
(1808-1844)
BIRTH
February 4, 1808
PLACE
London, England, United Kingdom
DEATH
January 13, 1844
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FAMILY
FATHER
Francis Rawdon
(1754-1826)
MOTHER
Flora Mure-Campbell
(1780-1840)
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George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings, was a British peer and courtier who lived from 1808 to 1844. A son of Francis Rawdon-Hastings and Flora Mure-Campbell, he inherited his father’s titles in 1826 and his mother’s in 1840. He served as a gentleman of the bedchamber to William IV in 1830–1831. In 1831 he married Barbara Yelverton, Baroness Grey de Ruthyn; they had six children. He kept a pack of foxhounds at his family seat, Donington Hall.
EARLY LIFE
George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings was born on Feb 4, 1808. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings died on Jan 13, 1844. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings, was a British peer and courtier who lived from 1808 to 1844. A son of Francis Rawdon-Hastings and Flora Mure-Campbell, he inherited his father’s titles in 1826 and his mother’s in 1840. George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings died on Jan 13, 1844. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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