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3 unusual facts about Selina Hastings


Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

He later renamed the settlement in honor of Selina, the Countess of Huntingdon, England.

Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

To evade the injunction she was compelled to take shelter under the Toleration Act placing her among the dissenters, and severed from the Connexion several eminent and useful members, among them William Romaine and Henry Venn.

The Paragon, Bath

It was also known as the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, as she lived in the attached house from 1707–1791.


John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira

After her death in August 1751 he married, thirdly, Elizabeth Hastings, 16th Baroness Botreaux, daughter of Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon and Lady Selina Shirley, on 26 February 1752.

Thomas Caulker

In the early 1850s Thomas Caulker was sent by his father, Canrah Bah Caulker, King of Bompey (syn: Bumpe), to London, for a Christian education in the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion pioneered in the eighteenth century by the evangelical Selina Hastings, and for his health.


see also

Celia Brayfield

She won a place at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, West London, an academic public school with a literary and political tradition; alumnae include the writers Monica Dickens, Selina Hastings, Flora Fraser; Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman; the actors Emily Mortimer, Jennifer Saunders, Joely Richardson and Rachel Weisz; and the politicians Harriet Harman and Shirley Williams.