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2 unusual facts about Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon


Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

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

The Paragon, Bath

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


George Grote

His father, another George, married (1793) Selina, daughter of Henry Peckwell (1747–1787), minister of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon's chapel in Westminster, and his wife Bella Blosset (descended from a Huguenot officer Salomon Blosset de Loche who left the Dauphiné on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes), and had one daughter and ten sons, of whom George was the eldest.

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.

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.

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.

Tyldesley Top Chapel

Its first minister was J. Johnson who was ordained at Spa Fields Chapel London by the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion.


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