Peter Robin Hood Hastings-Bass
Deceased Person
1920 – 1964
Who was Peter Robin Hood Hastings-Bass?
Peter Robin Hood Hastings-Bass was a British racehorse trainer.
Hastings-Bass was born Peter Hastings in 1920. His father was Aubrey Hastings, who trained three Grand National winners and was based at stables at Wroughton. Peter Hastings was educated at Oxford University where he represented the university at athletics and rugby union. He served with the Welsh Guards during World War II and after the war was assistant to his father's successor at the Wroughton stables, Ivor Anthony, from 1946 to 1952.
He purchased Kingsclere racing stables from Evan Williams and began training himself in 1953, concentrating on Flat racing. Between 1953 and his death in 1964 he trained 340 winners at Kingsclere. He added the name of Bass to his name by deed poll in 1954; his aunt's husband was Sir William Bass, 2nd Baronet, who died in 1952 and left his estate to Hastings.
Hastings-Bass died at the age of 43 in 1964. Hastings-Bass married Priscilla Bullock, daughter of Sir Malcolm Bullock in 1947. She retained the name Priscilla Hastings after her husband changed his, and was elected as one of the first female members of the Jockey Club in 1977. They had a daughter, Emma and three sons, one of whom, William Hastings-Bass, 17th Earl of Huntingdon, was also a racehorse trainer and inherited the title of Earl of Huntingdon in 1990.
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- Born
- Jul 16, 1920
- Also known as
- Peter Hastings-Bass
- Peter Hastings-Bass
- Parents
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Died
- Jun 4, 1964
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on July 23, 2013
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