Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon [née Shirley]

(1707-1791)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess of, 1707-1791 NRA: Hastings Selina (1707-1791) nee Shirley Founder of Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion wife of 9th Earl of Huntingdon DNB: Hastings [née Shirley], Selina, countess of Huntingdon (1707-1791), founder of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion LBT ID: LyHunti9 VIAF ID: 64833077 LOC ID: n50029705	B/BAP: 1707-08-13 DIED: 1791-06-17
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The daughter of Washington Shirley, second Earl Ferrers; she was a patroness of evangelical clergymen and founder of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion.
REFERENCES TO Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon [née Shirley]: Terrot, Charles Hughes, 1790-1872, Common Sense: a Poem (Edinburgh: David Brown, 1819) Verse 2: p. 37a p. 37a Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 4 Chapter IV Found 1: ¶ 14 Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ 15 Chapter IX Found 2: ¶ 36 ¶ 41 Chapter XX Found 1: ¶ 3