Patrick Hastings
Sir Patrick Gardiner Hastings KC was a British barrister and politician noted for his long and highly successful career as a barrister and his short stint as Attorney General. He was educated at Charterhouse School until 1896, when his family moved to continental Europe. There he learnt to shoot and ride horses, allowing him to join the Suffolk Imperial Yeomanry after the outbreak of the Second Boer War. After demobilisation he worked briefly as an apprentice to an engineer in Wales before moving to London to become a barrister. Hastings joined the Middle Temple as a student onNovember 1901, and after two years of saving money for the call to the Bar he finally qualified as a barrister onJune 1904.
Hastings was born onMarch 1880 in London to Alfred Gardiner Hastings and Kate Comyns Carr, a painter and the sister of J. Comyns Carr. Having been born on Saint Patricks Day Hastings was named after the saint. His father was a solicitor with somewhat seedy clients, and the family were repeatedly bankrupted. Despite financial difficulties, there was enough money in the family to send Hastings to a private preparatory school in 1890 and to Charterhouse School in 1894. Hastings disliked school, saying I hated the bell which drove us up in the morning, I hated the masters above all I hated the work, which never interested me in the slightest degree. He was bullied at both the preparatory school and at Charterhouse, and did not excel at either sports or his studies.
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