Agnes Beadon was born on the 21st May 1879 in Kensington London. She was the fifth child of Henry Sneyd Beadon and Elizabeth Ellen Beadon (Nee Boddam) . Hemry Beadon worked for the Indian Civil Service and Agnes was the only one of the seven children to be born in England.
In May 1915 Agnes married Bernard John Eddowes Hastings, a Metallurgist, who worked at gold mines in South Africa. The couple had three children, all born in South Africa. In 1921, following a prolonged coal strike which caused great disruption to the country, Agnes returned to England with her three young children to live with her mother.
Agnes died in the Central London Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Grays Inn Rd, Clerkenwell, London, on the 12th August 1941 aged 62.