Hastings, William Hastings, 1st Lord (c. 1430-83). Hastings was the lifelong confidant of Edward IV. In the last years of the reign he was one of the half-dozen men on whom the king relied. Unquestionably loyal to the dynasty, he gave his total support to the young Edward V in the early summer of 1483. Because of his antipathy towards the Woodvilles, he was prepared initially to support Richard of Gloucester in his bid for power. But he himself became a victim when he was suddenly seized and executed on 13 June.
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William Soden Hastings (June 3, 1798 – June 17, 1842) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Mendon, Massachusetts, his father was Seth Hastings, also a U.S. Representative. The younger Hastings completed preparatory studies and graduated from Harvard University in 1817; he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1820 and commenced practice in Mendon. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1828, and served in the Massachusetts State Senate from 1829 to 1833.
Hastings was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving from March 4, 1837, until his death in Red Sulphur Springs, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1842; interment was in Old Cemetery, Mendon.
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