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Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon

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was a girl. The error was doubly unfortunate at the time, as the King had hoped for a male heir and he also promised £1,000 to the bearer of the news that he had a son and £500 that he had a girl (Huntingdon did not receive either). In 1766, he launched a claim to the royal Dukedom of Clarence that
234:, oversaw each step in the social and intellectual education of young Huntingdon, whom he praised as "the bright exemplar of the union of a scholar with the man of the world." In 1762, he incorrectly announced to the King that his first-born child ( 491: 208: 578: 548: 425: 406: 379: 248: 251:. On his death in 1789, the earldom became dormant. He was succeeded in the baronies of Hastings, Hungerford, de Moleyns and Botreaux by his sister 413: 121: 553: 474: 145: 100: 231: 177: 510: 196: 149: 110: 543: 295: 252: 173: 457: 396: 363: 239: 90: 264: 212: 235: 256: 180:). In August 1752, Huntingdon left Paris for Spain, where his self-importance irritated the British minister, 440: 583: 558: 386: 161: 260: 223: 573: 568: 563: 538: 285: 152:, a leader of the Methodist evangelical revival. Hastings was eighteen when he succeeded as 533: 528: 219: 160:
on his father's demise in 1746. The earl never married but did father an illegitimate son,
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in 1761, though the Sword of State itself was mislaid and he instead had to carry the
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preoccupied him for the rest of his life. He died suddenly on 2 October 1789, at the
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girl named Mademoiselle Lany, a dancer at the Opera whilst on his
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PC
Earl of Huntingdon

Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir Charles Hastings, 1st Baronet
9th Earl of Huntingdon
Lady Selina Shirley
PC
peer
9th Earl of Huntingdon
Lady Selina
Earl of Huntingdon
Baron Botreaux
Charles
Parisian
Grand Tour
David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont
4th Earl of Chesterfield
Sir Benjamin Keene
the continent
Royal Court
George, Duke of Clarence
Edward IV
Master of the Horse
Bearer of the Sword of State
George III's
coronation
Lord Mayor of London
Pearl Sword
Groom of the Stole

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