Background
The son and heir of Warner Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon by his wife Maud Margaret (née Wilson), he was educated at Eton College, Christ Church Oxford, and the Slade School of Art, London.
artist writer Labour parliamentarian
The son and heir of Warner Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon by his wife Maud Margaret (née Wilson), he was educated at Eton College, Christ Church Oxford, and the Slade School of Art, London.
Christ Church; Slade School of Fine Artist Eton College.
At Oxford, in 1922, he represented its Polo Varsity Team. Huntingdon was a pupil of the Mexican mural painter Diego Rivera and held exhibitions notably in London, Paris, Chicago and San Francisco. He was also appointed a Professor at the Camberwell College of Arts and the Central School of Arts & Crafts, London.
He later served as Chairman of the Society of Mural Painters between 1951 and 1958.
During the Second World War he was Deputy Controller of Defence of the Andover Rural District Council from 1941 to 1945. Huntingdon succeeded in the earldom in 1939 and took his seat on the Labour benches in the House of Lords.
He served under Clement Attlee as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1945 to 1950. He was author of The Golden Octopus and Commonsense about India.
Lady Moorea Hastings (4 March 1928 - 21 October 2011).
She was from 1957 to 1966 the wife of politician and diarist Woodrow, Lord Wyatt of Weeford before marrying the adman Brinsley Black, named as one of the best-dressed Englishmen in the inaugural issue of Men in Vogue in 1965. Honorary Pericles Plantagenet James Casati Wyatt (born 1963), became an owner and operator of water parks and recreational vehicle camps in Arizona. Half-brother to journalist Petronella Wyatt.
Lady Huntingdon was a writer and critic and published books on Beatrix Potter, Samuel Johnson and the Brontë sisters.
They had two daughters:
Lady Selina Shirley Hastings (born 5 March 1945). Lady Caroline Harriet Hastings (born 12 June 1946).