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Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (née Shirley; 24 August 1707 – 17 June 1791) was an English Methodist leader who played a prominent part in the religious revival of the 18th century and the Methodist movement in England and Wales. She founded an evangelical branch in England and Sierra Leone, known as the Countess of Huntingdon's ...
The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion was founded in 1783 by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, as a result of the Evangelical Revival. It seceded from the Church of England , founded its own training establishment – Trevecca College – and built up a network of chapels across England in the late 18th century.
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Countess of Huntingdon may refer to: Maud, Countess of Huntingdon; Matilda of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon; Mary Woodville (c. 1456–1481) Anne Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (c. 1483–1544) Katherine Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1540s–1620) Elizabeth Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1588–1633) Lucy Hastings, Countess of ...
Lady Anne Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (née Anne Stafford) (c. 1483–1544) was an English noble. She was the daughter of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham , and Catherine Woodville , sister of queen consort Elizabeth Woodville .
The earldom was inherited by Waltheof's daughter Maud, countess of Huntingdon, and passed to her husbands in turn, first Simon de Senlis and then David King of Scotland. Following her death, and during the reigns of Matilda and Stephen and the anarchy that ensued, the earldom was the subject of dispute between Maud's sons Simon II and Henry the ...
Katherine Hastings (née Dudley), Countess of Huntingdon (c. 1538 [1] or 1543–1545 [2] – 14 August 1620) was an English noblewoman. She was the youngest surviving daughter of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland and his wife, Jane Guildford , and a sister of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester , Elizabeth I 's favourite .
Maud was the daughter of Waltheof, the Anglo-Saxon Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, and his French wife Judith of Lens.Her father was the last of the major Anglo-Saxon earls to remain powerful after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and the son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria.