* Hastings Banda ( 1898 – 1997 ), former President of Malawi

Roads from the Old Town valley lead towards the Victorian area of Clive Vale and the former village of Ore, from which " The Ridge ", marking the effective boundary of Hastings, extends north-westwards towards Battle.

Immediately following the Hastings tournament, Polgár played an exhibition match in February against former World Champion, Boris Spassky.

Malawi's former President Bakili Muluzi continued the pro-Western foreign policy established by former President Hastings Banda.

* James F. Hastings of Olean, retired former U. S. Congressman ( served from 1969 to 1976 )

Old Malawian 1 kwacha note, carrying the date 1 Dec 1990, depicting former President-for-Life Hastings Banda on the front and workers in a Tobacco field on the reverse.

Even then, the former MP for Hastings Jacqui Lait managed to hold on to the seat for the Conservatives by just over 1, 000 votes.

The Hastings Symphony Orchestra performs in the Chautauqua Pavilion, built in 1907 and on the National Register of Historic Places, while the Hastings Community Theatre performs in the auditorium of the former Spencer Park School, built during the housing shortage of the 1940s.

Three former elementary schools were closed in June 1980: Prospect School was torn down, along with the former Baldwin Junior High School and former Baldwin Senior High School which were combined in one building in the 1980s to make way for a housing complex ; Coolidge School on Grand Avenue has been converted to condominiums ; Harbor Elementary School on Hastings Street is now the school district office building.

Although Palmer returned to the group at the beginning of June, Young had already left and as a result missed the celebrated Monterey Pop Festival, at which the band performed with former Daily Flash and future Rhinoceros member Doug Hastings on guitar and guest David Crosby.

Winifred Williams was born Winifred Marjorie Williams in Hastings, England, to John Williams, a writer, and his wife, the former Emily Florence Karop.

The former local colliery, Rawdon Colliery, also bore a Hastings family name.

Marc Robert Boerigter (; born May 4, 1978 in Hastings, Nebraska ) is a former professional Canadian and American football player.

On a corner with Oxford Street, Somerset House ( No. 40 ), built in 1769-70, was successively the town house of Warren Hastings, a former Governor-General of India, the third Earl of Rosebery, and the Dukes of Somerset.

Like much of Greater Vancouver, Burnaby has always had large ethnic and immigrant communities: to cite two examples, North Burnaby near Hastings Street has long been home to many Italian restaurants and recreational bocce games, while Metrotown's ever-sprouting condominium towers in the south have been fuelled in part by more recent arrivals from China ( Hong Kong and Macau ), Taiwan, South Korea, and the former Yugoslavia.

The eastern end of the High Weald, the English Channel coast, is marked in the centre by the high sandstone cliffs from Hastings to Pett Level ; and by former sea cliffs now fronted by the Pevensey and Romney Marshes on either side.

He is perhaps best known for the game he lost to the former world champion Wilhelm Steinitz at Hastings 1895, especially because he just left the tournament room instead of resigning:

Chaney married one of his former colleagues in the Kolb and Dill company tour, a chorus girl named Hazel Hastings.

* Crenshaw Christian Center – east coast branch of west coast megachurch, occupied the former First Church of Christ, Scientist, ( Carrère and Hastings, 1903 ).

Hotel Washington ( Washington, D. C .) | The W Hotel in Washington, D. C. is located in the former Hotel Washington, built in 1918 to the designs of architectural firm Carrère and Hastings.

For instance, John Stuart Mill famously suggested that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".

John Stuart Mill's famous opinion was that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".

As with the rest of the British Isles and Southern England, Hastings experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters.

* 1832 – The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.

Hastings Banda became Prime Minister on 1 February 1963, although the British still controlled the country's financial, security, and judicial systems.

* 1880 – Sir Patrick Hastings, British barrister ( d. 1952 )

* December 6 – Warren Hastings, British administrator ( d. 1818 )

* April 23 – Former Governor-General of India Warren Hastings is acquitted by the British House of Lords of misconduct.

* Mount Fowler ( Hastings Arm ), a mountain near the head of Hastings Arm, Observatory Inlet, on the North Coast of British Columbia

After the independence in 1964, Zomba became the capital until 1974 when Hastings Banda made the decision to shift the capital city from Zomba to Lilongwe ( against vociferous objections from the British preference for the economically and well developed Blantyre ).

The British historian Max Hastings has labelled the operation both costly and unnecessary, writing that " Operation Varsity was a folly for which more than a thousand men paid for with their lives ..."

The PNE Agrodome at Hastings Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, served as the location of Rocky's Soviet bout.

If the trial could demonstrate the misrule of British India by Hastings and the East India Company more widely, then Fox ’ s India Bill of 1784 – the point on which the Fox-North Coalition had been dismissed by the King – would be vindicated.

The 100-block of East Hastings Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, the heart of that city's " skid road " neighborhood, lies on a historical skid road.

Shortly after the outbreak of hostilities, Governor Hastings had sent General Sir Eyre Coote south from Bengal to take charge of British forces opposing Hyder.

At the time British traders still operated by the whim of local rulers and Hastings and his colleagues were unsettled by the political turmoil of Bengal with the elderly moderate Nawab Alivardi Khan likely to be succeeded by his grandson Siraj ud-Daulah and several other rival claimants also eyeing the throne.

In 1758 Hastings was made the British Resident in the Bengali capital of Murshidabad, a major step forwards in his career, at the instigation of Clive.

By this stage Hastings shared Clive's view that the three major British Presidencies ( settlements ), Madras, Bombay and Calcutta, should all be brought under a single rule rather than being governed separately as they currently were.

Together with Warren Hastings he was one of the key early figures in the creation of British India.

* Handley Page Hastings, a British troop-carrier and freight transport aircraft

* Frank Abney Hastings, 1794-1828, British naval officer and Philhellene

An English journal reported that during an 1809 storm, three " balls of fire " appeared and " attacked " the British ship HMS Warren Hastings.

Carlo D ' Este views Wittmann's attack as " one of the most amazing engagements in the history of armoured warfare "; Max Hastings calls it " one of the most devastating single-handed actions of the war "; and Antony Beevor claims it was " one of the most devastating ambushes in British military history ".