HASTINGS, FERDINANDO, SIXTH EARL OF HUNTINGDON
Crest.—A bull's head erased sa., armed and ducally gorged or. Hastings.
Coronet.—That of an Earl.
Motto.—Honorantes me honorabo.
[Camden. Tomus alter Annalium Rerum Anglicarum ... regnante Elizabetha. Londini, 1627.]
Crest.—A bull's head erased sa., armed and ducally gorged or. Hastings.
Coronet.—That of an Earl.
[Reusner. ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΩΝ operis Genealogici Catholici Auctarium, illustres Stirpes Comitum continens, etc. Francofurti, 1592.]
Ferdinando Hastings (born 18th January 1608, died 13th February 1655) was the son of Henry, fifth Earl of Huntingdon, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Ferdinando, Earl of Derby. He succeeded his father in the Earldom in 1643. Lord Huntingdon married Lucy, daughter of Sir John Davis of Englefield, Berks.
