Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough

Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough
Ashby de la Zouch Castle; the family home which Hastings held for Charles I during the First English Civil War
Custos Rotulorum & Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire
In office 1661 – 1667  †
Royalist High Sheriff of Leicestershire
In office 1642–1643
Personal details
Born	28 September 1610 Ashby de la Zouch Castle
Died	10 January 1667(1667-01-10) (aged 56) Lambeth, London
Resting place	St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Nationality	English
Alma mater	Queens' College, Cambridge
Military service
Rank	Colonel
Commands	Royalist military commander, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire
Battles/wars	Wars of the Three Kingdoms Powick Bridge Edgehill Hopton Heath Siege of Lichfield Cotes Bridge Relief of Newark Storming of Leicester Stow-on-the-Wold Siege of Colchester

Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough, 28 September 1610 to 10 January 1667, was the younger son of Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon, one of the most powerful landowners in Leicestershire. He fought with the Royalist army in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and narrowly escaped execution after being captured at Colchester in 1648. He spent the next twelve years with the Stuart court in exile, and became a leading member of the Sealed Knot, a body set up to co-ordinate Royalist plots against The Protectorate. Hastings returned home after the 1660 Stuart Restoration, and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire in 1661, a position he retained until his death in January 1667.