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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.
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.
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.
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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.
Oct 12, 2022 · Warren Hastings (1732-1818) was appointed the Governor of Bengal by the British East India Company (EIC) in 1772 and became its first Governor-General in India from 1774 to 1785. Under his tenure, the EIC ruthlessly expanded its territory both in terms of conquest and through treaties of alliance with Indian princely states.
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.
Warren Hastings was appointed the first Governor-General to oversee the Company’s reform. He later returned to Britain charged with ‘high crimes and misdemeanours’ and faced an impeachment trial which lasted seven years.
Jun 14, 2024 · Warren Hastings - India Governor, Reforms, Controversy: The death of Clavering in 1777 put Hastings once again in possession of full power, although Francis’s opposition dragged on for another three years.
