• Name: Hastings, Francis Rawdon (first marquess of Hastings and second earl of Moira)
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 7  December  1754
• Death Date: 28  November  1826
• Occupation: army officer
• Occupation: politician

Francis Rawdon, first marquess of Hastings and second earl of Moira (1754–1826), army officer and politician. Godwin calls on Moira during his trip to Ireland in 1800. Moira was a loyal Fox supporter. The majority of his contact, however, seems to have been with Moira's mother.

In 1796 Hastings and Otton call on Godwin; Godwin also meets Hastings at Debrett's. It is extremely unlikely that Warren Hastings would be in such Whig circles - and it may instead be Thomas Hastings (bap. 1741, d. 1801), see DNB, an eccentric Whig pamphleteer who helped Fox in the 1784 election and may well have known Godwin when the latter was writing for the Political Herald, although we lack further supporting evidence other than the Whig connection. The references may equally be to Francis Rawdon, but Rawdon succeeded to the title in 1793 and it would be unusual for Godwin not to include the title if this was a first meeting. These 1796 entries have accordingly been left coded. Holcroft's diary also mentions a General Hastings, often as Debrett's, and on one occasion, too superior to acknowledge him on the street. Moira was a major general in 1793 but not promted to full general until 1803.

Godwin records his death.

• DNB
• Thomas Holcroft, The life of Thomas Holcroft, continued by William Hazlitt, ed. by Elbridge Colby, 2 vols (London: Constable & Co., 1925)

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