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Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon

English noble · Politicians · Lived 1535 to 1595 · aged 60

Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon was an English Puritan nobleman. Educated alongside the future Edward VI, he was briefly imprisoned by Mary I, and later considered by some as a potential successor to Elizabeth I.

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He hotly opposed the scheme to marry Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Duke of Norfolk, and was entrusted by Elizabeth to see that the Scottish queen did not escape at the time of the threatened uprising in 1569. He served as President of the Council of the North from 1572 until his death in 1595.

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Politicians
Type
Politician
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Deceased
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Lived 1535 to 1595 · aged 60