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Jun 5, 2011 · Lord Hastings or Lord Moira {Earl of Moira} served as Governor General of India from 1813 to 1823, a long ten years term. His tenure is known for policy of intervention and war. Two important wars viz. Gurkha War and Third Anglo Maratha war occurred during his tenure. He simplified the judicial proceedings and abolished the Censorship Act.
4 days ago · India - Colonial Rule, Lord Hastings, Reforms: The end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 opened a new era in India by strengthening the commercial and economic arguments for completing supremacy and by removing all fear of the French.
William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings KG (c. 1431 – June 1483) was an English nobleman. A loyal follower of the House of York during the Wars of the Roses, he became a close friend and one of the most important courtiers of King Edward IV, whom he served as Lord Chamberlain.
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.
Michael John Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick, CBE (born 29 January 1958), is currently the Professor of Leadership at the Stephen R. Covey Leadership Centre at Huntsman Business School, USA, and sits on the Concordia Leadership Council.
Jun 23, 2017 · Warren Hastings (1732 – 1818) became the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal) in 1772 and the first Governor-General of Bengal in 1774 till he resigned in 1785. He started his career as a writer (clerk) in the East India Company at Calcutta in 1750.
When Leonard Hastings died in 1455 just after the Battle of St Albans (the first battle of the Wars of the Roses between the houses of York and Lancaster), William, the new Lord Hastings, followed his father as a loyal Yorkist supporter and was awarded several positions by the duke.
Aug 12, 2021 · It was the first British Governor-General who launched India’s cultural renaissance way back in the 1780s. Of all Britain’s imperial proconsuls, Warren Hastings was undoubtedly the most curious and learned about Indian culture and famously declared: “I love India a little more than my own country”.
William Hastings, Baron Hastings was an English soldier and diplomat, a supporter of King Edward IV and the Yorkists against the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses. Son of Sir Leonard Hastings (d. 1455), he was master of the mint and chamberlain of the royal household under Edward IV and was.
