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Warren Hastings FRS (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818) was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first Governor-General of Bengal in 1772–1785.
Jun 14, 2024 · Warren Hastings was the first and most famous of the British governors-general of India, who dominated Indian affairs from 1772 to 1785 and was impeached (though acquitted) on his return to England. The son of a clergyman of the Church of England, Hastings was abandoned by his father at an early.
By Thomas Watson (1750-1781) after Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). Warren Hastings (1732-1818) English statesman and first de facto Governor-General of India from 1774 to 1785. In 1787 he was accused of corruption and impeached but after a long trial he was acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1814.
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Oct 11, 2022 · A c. 1783 portrait by Joseph Zoffany of Warren Hastings (1732 - 1818), the colonial administrator and first Governor-General of the East India Company. Courtesy of the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Warren Hastings. (1732-1818), Governor-General of India. Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter associated with 49 portraits. Hastings was the first Governor-General of India (1772 -85). He transformed the East India Company from a trading organisation into a great military and naval power.
Portrait of Warren Hastings (1732-1818), British administrator in India. Hastings served as the first Governor-General of British India from 1773-1786. He was impeached at the bar of the House of Lords in 1788, but was acquitted in 1795.
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