Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon

Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon (30 January 1901 – 24 August 1990), styled Viscount Hastings until 1939, was a British artist, academic and later a Labour parliamentarian.

The son and heir of Warner Hastings, 15th Earl of Huntingdon by his wife Maud Margaret (née Wilson), he was educated at Eton College, Christ Church Oxford, and the Slade School of Art, London. At Oxford, in 1922, he represented its Polo Varsity Team.

Huntingdon was a pupil of the Mexican mural painter Diego Rivera and held exhibitions notably in London, Paris, Chicago and San Francisco. He was also appointed a Professor at the Camberwell College of Arts and the Central School of Arts & Crafts, London. He later served as Chairman of the Society of Mural Painters between 1951 and 1958.

During the Second World War he was Deputy Controller of Defence of the Andover Rural District Council from 1941 to 1945. Huntingdon succeeded in the earldom in 1939 and took his seat on the Labour benches in the House of Lords. He served under Clement Attlee as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1945 to 1950.

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