Talk:George Fowler Hastings

Vancouver names

I amended that a bit, not sure what's in Snyder's book, but the neighbourhood was named for teh street or park; the street was named in 1870 with the first survey of Granville, B.I. (Gastown) but there was also a Hastings Road, which ran along the shoreline rather than on the straight E-W axis that the eventual extension of Hastings Street was laid eastwards on; Hastings Road's name derives from its being the road ("trail" would be a better description) to Hastings, B.I., where New Brighton Park is now, and FWIR Hastings Park was named for that location when it was dedicated by its donor, and the street seems more to have been named after it still "going to Hastings", which was that general area. And Hastings, B.I. was named for Admiral Hastings. As I said I don't have Snyder's book, what I know is remembered from Matthews' Early Vancouver and various Vancouver Archives publications; I'll x-post this on the Vancouver Wikiproject, someone there may have more detailed information; "Hastings-Sunrise" wasn't "established" until well into the 1970s when Vancouver's official neighbourhood map was first laid out; the name is derived frmo the area/park/street, rather than directly from Adm. Hastings, so wording was correspondingly adjustedSkookum1 (talk) 13:22, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Other bits and pieces

On my trawl through the London Gazette I came across two more potentially interesting items. "No. 23636". The London Gazette. 22 July 1870. "Lieutenant Alexander Flantagenet Hastings has been this day promoted to the rank of Commander in Her Majesty's Fleet, in the hauling down vacancy of Vice-Admiral the Honourable George Fowler Hastings, C.B., late Commander-in-Chief on the Pacific Station." - sounds rather like taking advantage of an old tradition to carry out a bit of nepotism.

Also "No. 24394". The London Gazette. 15 December 1876. suggests there might have been a bit of financial trouble at the time of his death.

His service record also records a few extra bits and bobs, a few more compliments from the Turks and French in the Crimea, but also in December 1869, an error in judgement in referring someone to court martial when they'd already been gievn summary punishment by their captain. David Underdown (talk) 14:57, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Curacao

I've been checking The Times archive as well - the info there also suggests he went to Curacao in August 1954 (when it was commissioned), not in 1852. David Underdown (talk) 17:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

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