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Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough

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30: 464:. He surrendered with the others on 28 August 1648 and was exiled by Parliament (he fled to Holland) on 18 November 1648. In this he was fortunate as Capell, Lucas and Lisle were all executed for their part in the rebellion. 499: 432:
As the war progressed and Royalist fortunes waned, Ashby—already the target of action in 1644—was subject to a prolonged siege between September 1645 and its surrender in March 1646. Hastings, ennobled as the first
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on 23 October 1643, for his services to Charles I, marched out with the honours of war. The castle was later partly demolished, with the remaining Hastings family moving to
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in 1661 although he only ever lived in London from then on, in a Manor House in Lambeth Wick he renamed Loughborough House. He died in 1667.
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Hastings, therefore, as Colonel Hastings, became engaged in various skirmishes between the opposing forces, seeing action at the
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and was subsequently appointed the governor of Leicester by the King on 2 June. Following the Royalist defeat at the
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p466, Robert Ashton, Counter Revolution: The Second Civil War and its Origins 1646–48, Yale University Press, 1994
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Several streets and a railway station in the Brixton area of London perpetuate his name.
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the Royalist garrison at Leicester was itself besieged by the parliamentarian general
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In May 1645 Hastings supported Prince Rupert in the siege and the storming of
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in 1661, a position he retained until his death in January 1667.
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and later losing an eye to a pistol shot after an exchange near
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supported the Parliamentary cause. Hastings was made
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Royalist military personnel of the English Civil War
308:court in exile, and became a leading member of the 304:in 1648. He spent the next twelve years with the 689: 448:in raising troops for the Royalists, joined the 558:, Volume Four 1647–49, The Windrush Press, 1987 332:Henry Hastings was born 28 September 1610 at 528:The Siege and Storming of Leicester May 1645 601:. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 354:Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon 37:; the family home which Hastings held for 28: 738:People from the London Borough of Lambeth 288:, one of the most powerful landowners in 525: 498: 316:. Hastings returned home after the 1660 391:that same year (1642) by King Charles. 690: 342:Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon 286:Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon 282:Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough 22:Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough 348:(1588–1633). 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Index


Ashby de la Zouch Castle
Charles I
First English Civil War
Custos Rotulorum
Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire

Royalist
High Sheriff of Leicestershire
Ashby de la Zouch Castle
Lambeth
London
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Alma mater
Queens' College, Cambridge
Colonel
Royalist
Leicestershire
Nottinghamshire
Derbyshire
Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Powick Bridge
Edgehill
Hopton Heath
Siege of Lichfield
Cotes Bridge
Relief of Newark
Leicester
Stow-on-the-Wold
Siege of Colchester

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