Monthly Archives: July 2009

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The days leading up to the presentation were busy & varied – luncheon with the Club & Society heirarchy at the Hellenic Yacht Club; visits to my old friend Admiral Paloumbis at the Hellenic Maritime museum, meetings with the delightful publisher, Ari Caratzas & his wife, of course our greatest supporter in Greece, Micky Capaitzis plus many,many others

Frank Abney-Hastings was a direct descendent of 1st Earl of Huntingdon whose grandfather was William, Lord Hastings, who was executed by his friend & cousin, Richard III. The first Earl was George Hastings, a childhood friend of Prince Hal, later Henry VIII who created him 1st Earl of Huntingdon & allowed him sufficient funds to build up estates around Ashby de la Zouch.

Frank Abney-Hastings was a direct descendent of 1st Earl of Huntingdon whose grandfather was William, Lord Hastings, who was executed by his friend & cousin, Richard III. The first Earl was George Hastings, a childhood friend of Prince Hal, later Henry VIII who created him 1st Earl of Huntingdon & allowed him sufficient funds to build up estates around Ashby de la Zouch.

Willesley Hall

Willsley Hall

Willsey Hall

Maurice Abney-Hastings was born in Nottingham, brought up in Leicestershire and spent 15 years in Hampshire, but for the past 20 something years has resided in rural Warwickshire. He was educated at Becket School, Nottingham, University of Southampton, School of Navigation & the British School at Athens, & in the earlier part of his life was connected…

A Cretan military commander who led a force of 1,600 against 11,000 of Ibrahim Pasha’s men at Methoni near to Navarino.

Appointed by his brother as military commander of the Morea in 1821