Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon, styled Viscount Hastings until 1939, was a British artist, academic, and later a Labour parliamentarian.
Portrait of Hastings from an Elliott & Fry half-plate glass negative, 1945. From the collections of the National Portrait Gallery
Hastings' mural, The worker of the future upsetting the economic chaos of the present (1935; detail), in the Marx Memorial Library, London
Memorial to the Earl in Ashby Church
Margaret Lane
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Margaret Winifred Lane was a British journalist, biographer and novelist, the author of more than two dozen books. She was the second wife of Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon.
Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon
…Huntingdon and his first wife divorced in 1943 (Cristina then married Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford and died in 1953). Huntingdon married secondly Margaret Lane, daughter of Harry George Lane, and former wife of Bryan Wallace, son of the writer Edgar Wallace, in 1944. Lady Huntingdon was a writer and critic and…
Lane in 1935