User:SBmeier/Hastings (Name)

Hastings is an English surname of Anglo-Saxon origin derived from the place where a man once lived or held land, and is likely based on a place of the same name in Sussex, England.^[1] One of the earliest references to this name is found in English documents as early as XXXX AD.^[1]

Hastings may also refer to:

• Burton Hastings, England
• Hastings, England
• Hastings Castle, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, England

• Hastings, Massachusetts
• Hastings, Minnesota
• Hastings, Nebraska
• Hastings-on-Hudson, New York

• University of California, Hastings College of Law

Natural features

• Hastings Cutoff

• Hastings, Ontario

• Hastings, Victoria, Australia
• Hastings, New Zealand

Natural features

• Hastings River, Australia

Surnames

• Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings
• Edward Hastings, Baron Hastings of Loughborough
• Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon
• George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon
• Lansford Hastings
• Sir Max Hastings
• Michael Hastings (playwright)
• Michael John Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick
• Doc Hastings
• Selina Hastings (author)
• Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
• Serranus Clinton Hastings
• Seth Hastings
• Smith H. Hastings (1843-1905) (Union Col. and Medal of Honor winner)
• Solon S. Hastings (1806-aft. 1864) (Massachusetts legislator)
• Sir Stephen Lewis Edmonstone Hastings
• Steven J. Hastings (1850-aft. 1892) (Vermont legislator)
• Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon
• Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon
• Thomas Hastings (colonist)
• Thomas Hastings (architect)
• Thomas Hastings (composer)
• Thomas Hastings (Royal Navy officer)
• Thomas Nelson Hastings (1858-1907) (Member of NH State Senate and friend of Thomas Edison)
• Wells Southworth Hastings (1878-1923) (Author)
• William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings
• William Soden Hastings
• W. Reed Hastings

Given names

• Edward Hastings Chamberlain
• Eliakim Hastings Moore
• E.H. Moore
• Frederick H. Rindge
• Frederick Hastings Smyth (1888-1960) (Controversial American Catholic Theologian)
• Hastings Keith, American politician
• Michael Hastings Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme
• Waitstill Sharp

Fictional

• Capt. Arthur Hastings, side-kick of Agatha Christie's detective, Hercule Poirot

• Hastings Entertainment, Inc.

• Hastings (genus), a genus of ??? from the family

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