Miss M. Westenra
(1847-1894)
28 June 1862

Volume 7, page 119, sitting number 8723.

Born Mary Anne Wilmot Westenra on 3 July 1847, she was the only child of Colonel the Honourable John Craven Westenra and his wife Anne née Daubuz.

On 15 August 1867 she married Francis Power Plantagenet Hastings, Viscount Hastings, who succeeded his father as 14th Earl of Huntingdon in 1875. Their marriage produced three sons and five daughters before the early death of the Earl in 1885. 

The Dowager Countess of Huntingdon died on 16 December 1894.

According to an obituary in the Dublin Evening Mail (17 December 1894), she 'died at her residence, Sharavogue, King's County. [...] Her ladyship was the widow of Francis Power Plantagenet, 14th Earl of Huntingdon, and mother of the present peer, who with other members of the family were present at the last sad moments. She died at the comparatively early age of 48, to the great grief of her relatives and a large circle of friends. The deceased lady had been ailing for a few months, and suffered towards the close of her illness from insomnia. Dr C. B. Stoney, the family physician, was in constant attendance to the last, and had special nurses provided to care for his noble patient, whose early death is lamanted by all ranks of society.'