Hastings, Barbara Rawdon, Baroness Grey de Ruthyn; Marchioness of Hastings (F)
Surname: Hastings Forename(s): Barbara Rawdon b. 20 May 1810. d. 18 November 1858. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, fossil collector, and geological author. Née Yelverton. Born in Warwickshire.
Became Baroness Grey of Ruthin at the age of one after the death of her father in
1811. Married twice, to George Augustus Francis Rawdon Hastings on 1 August 1831 and
to Hastings Reginald Henry on 9 April 1845. Established a private museum in her home,
Efford House, to display the fossils she collected and gained a specialist knowledge
of. Author of several geological research papers on stratigraphy (1852-1853). Sold
her collection of fossils to the British Museum in 1855, who moved them to the Natural
History Museum in London. Biographical information: ODNB. (AC, CC)