Francis Hastings, Baron Hastings (1560 -
17 December 1595) was the son of
George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon and Dorothy Port. He married Sarah Harington, daughter of Sir James Harington and Lucy Sydney. They had two children, Catherine, who married
Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield, and
Henry, who succeed his grandfather as Earl of Huntingdon.