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Lady Elizabeth Hastings (19 April 1682 – 21 December 1739), known as Lady Betty and less commonly as Steele's Aspasia, was an English benefactor. LifeShe was the daughter of the 7th Earl of Huntingdon; her brother George became the 8th Earl. Hastings's father died in 1704 and her brother in 1705.[1] Her grandmother died a year later and passed on to her the estate of Ledston or Ledstone Hall, near Castleford, West Yorkshire, and she lived there until her death.[1] She did not marry.[1] Lady Betty had an annual income of about £3000 and gave half of this to various charitable causes, including local charities, a girls' school in Ledsham, and a school in Chelsea run by Mary Astell. She was a major influence on the erection of Holy Trinity Church, Leeds.[2] She gained the epithet "Steele's Aspasia" because Richard Steele wrote an essay in Tatler that compared Hastings to Aspasia.[3] Her portrait was painted by Godfrey Kneller, and her memorial in Ledsham church is based on this portrait. Early in 1738 she was found to have breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy, but her health continued to decline until she died at the end of 1739; during her illness she continued to make charitable donations. She left the bulk of her estate to her nephew Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon, but also made many charitable legacies and left the estate of Wheldale, near Wakefield to The Queen's College, Oxford to support scholars from specified northern schools. Lady Betty is remembered in the names of primary schools in Collingham, Ledston and Thorp Arch.[4][5][6] References1. ^1 2 {{cite book |last=Hill |first=Bridget |date=2001 |title=Women Alone Spinsters in England 1660-1850|publisher=Yale University Press |pages=174–175 |isbn=0300088205 }} 2. ^{{cite book | last = Linstrum | first = Derek | title = West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture | year = 1978 | publisher = Lund Humphries Publishers | location = London | page = 186 | isbn = 0-85331-410-1 }} 3. ^{{Cite book|page=223|title=Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims|author=Ralph Waldo Emerson|editors=Glen M. Johnson, Joel Myerson|year=2010|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=0674053788}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.ladyhastings-thorparch.leeds.sch.uk/| title=Lady Elizabeth Hastings Church of England School, Thorp Arch | accessdate=2007-11-01}} 5. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.ladyehastings.leeds.sch.uk/ | title=Lady Elizabeth Hastings Church of England Primary School, Ledston | accessdate=2007-11-01}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.collingham.leeds.sch.uk/index_2.htm |title=Collingham Lady Elizabeth Hastings' C of E (Aided) Primary School |accessdate=2007-11-01 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051216043628/http://www.collingham.leeds.sch.uk/index_2.htm |archivedate=2005-12-16 |df= }} Further reading
| last = Guerrini | first = Anita | encyclopedia =Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | title = Hastings, Lady Elizabeth (1682–1739) | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12564 | accessdate = 2007-11-01 | year = 2004 | publisher = Oxford University Press }}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lady Betty}}{{England-bio-stub}} 13 : 1682 births|1739 deaths|17th-century English nobility|17th-century English women|18th-century English nobility|18th-century English women|Daughters of British earls|Deaths from breast cancer|Deaths from cancer in England|English philanthropists|Hastings family|English women philanthropists|18th-century philanthropists |
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