Personal Life
Hastings married Mary Grundy on 1 June 1906. The couple had two sons, David and Nicholas, and three daughters. David died in the Second World War fighting in the Pacific Theatre, and Nicholas became a farmer in Kenya. One daughter, Barbara, married Nicolas Bentley, a cartoonist.
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