Lady Betty Hastings - Blue Plaque

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I took this photo on December 9 2013 of a blue plaque on Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane. I first noticed the plaque just a few days before. On trying to find information I found that the plaque had been inside the church, so it must have been put outside recently. I had not heard of Lady Betty Hastings before. The following is part of the information about her in the Wikipedia website:-"Lady Elizabeth Hastings (19 April 1682 – 21 December 1739), known as Lady Betty, was a benefactor and the daughter of the 7th Earl of Huntingdon. Her brother George became the 8th Earl. On her father's death in 1701 her brother passed on to her the estate of Ledston or Ledstone Hall, near Castleford, West Yorkshire, and she lived there until her death. She did not marry. She 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...She is remembered in the names of primary schools in Collingham, Ledston and Thorp Arch."