Patrick Hastings, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Patrick Hastings

British politician

Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1880

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 26-Feb-1952

Profession: solicitor, politician, barrister

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Patrick Hastings

  • Sir Patrick Gardiner Hastings, (17 March 1880 – 26 February 1952) was a British barrister and politician noted for his long and highly successful career as a barrister and his short stint as Attorney General.
  • He was educated at Charterhouse School until 1896, when his family moved to continental Europe.
  • There he learnt to shoot and ride horses, allowing him to join the Suffolk Imperial Yeomanry after the outbreak of the Second Boer War.
  • After demobilisation he worked briefly as an apprentice to an engineer in Wales before moving to London to become a barrister.
  • Hastings joined the Middle Temple as a student on 4 November 1901, and after two years of saving money for the call to the Bar he finally qualified as a barrister on 15 June 1904. Hastings first rose to prominence as a result of the Case of the Hooded Man in 1912, and became noted for his skill at cross-examinations.
  • After his success in Gruban v Booth in 1917, his practice steadily grew, and in 1919 he became a King's Counsel (KC).
  • Following various successes as a KC in cases such as Sievier v Wootton and Russell v Russell, his practice was put on hold in 1922 when he was returned as the Labour Member of Parliament for Wallsend.
  • Hastings was appointed Attorney General for England and Wales in 1924, by the first Labour government, and knighted.
  • His authorisation of the prosecution of J.
  • R.
  • Campbell in what became known as the Campbell Case, however, led to the fall of the government after less than a year in power. Following his resignation in 1926 to allow Margaret Bondfield to take a seat in Parliament, Hastings returned to his work as a barrister, and was even more successful than before his entry into the House of Commons.
  • His cases included the Savidge Inquiry and the Royal Mail Case, and before his full retirement in 1948 he was one of the highest paid barristers at the English Bar.
  • As well as his legal work, Hastings also tried his hand at writing plays.
  • Although these had a mixed reception, The River was made into a silent film in 1927 named The Notorious Lady.
  • Following strokes in 1948 and 1949, his activities became heavily restricted, and he died at home on 26 February 1952.

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