a small stroke which forced him to retire permanently from work as a barrister. On 11 November 1949, he and his wife travelled to Kenya, where their son Nicky had moved to start a new life after the end of the Second World War. While there, he suffered a second stroke due to the air pressure, and he never fully recovered. Hastings spent the next two years of his life living in a flat in London, before dying on 26 February 1952 of cerebral thrombosis. Personal life Hastings married Mary Grundy on 1 June 1906. The couple had two sons, David and Nicholas, and three daughters. David died in the Second World War fighting in the Pacific Theatre, and Nicholas became a farmer in Kenya. One daughter, Barbara, married Nicolas Bentley, a cartoonist. Ancestry References Footnotes Bibliography Hastings, Patrick, Cases in Court, London: Heinemann, 1949. Further reading External links 1880 births 1952 deaths 20th-century English lawyers Attorneys General for England and Wales British Army personnel of the Second Boer War British Yeomanry soldiers English barristers Knights Bachelor Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Middle Temple Military personnel from London People educated at Charterhouse School Royal Air Force officers Royal Air Force personnel of World War II UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929