page_title: S. U. Hastings
section_title: Private life
hierarchical_section_title: S. U. Hastings / Private life
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaque commemorating the dedication of the new Masonic Temple in Barbados Avenue, Kingston, Jamaica, in 1982, by Dr Aubrey Jacobs, Major-General Rudolph Green, Bishop Selvin Hastings, and others.
context_page_description: Selvin Uriah Hastings was the first Jamaican national consecrated as a bishop of the Moravian Church and the first Jamaican to be elected head of the Moravian Church Unity Board.
context_section_description: Hastings was married to Pansy, and they had three children.
  He was a Freemason, initiated in 1963 in Arawak Lodge No 6902 (under the jurisdiction of the United Grand Lodge of England) in Kingston, Jamaica. He served as the District Grand Chaplain for the Masonic District of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, and in that capacity he was the dedicating Grand Chaplain of the new Masonic temple in Barbados Avenue, Kingston, on 12 February 1982, assisting Dr Aubrey Jacobs and Major-General Rudolph Green.
caption: Commemorative plaque at the Masonic Temple in Barbados Avenue, Kingston, Jamaica.
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