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Marian Hastings (1747–1837) born Anna Maria Apollonia Chapuset who became Marian von Imhoff, Baroness von Imhoff. She met Warren Hastings on a ship bound for India. While she and Warren remained on good terms she divorced her husband who painted miniatures and married Hastings.
The gentleman was 37-year-old Warren Hastings, who, in a few years, would become the first Governor of the Bengal Presidency. Only a few years ago, he had lost Mary, his beloved wife. It was his second voyage to India and there he saw Marian. Mrs. Marian Imhoff. Marian was then only 22. She was a mother of three and an epitome of beauty.
- Hastings and Belvedere Estate
- Tracking Down Hastings in Unhurried Belvedere
- Love Blossoms at Belvedere For Warren Hastings
- The Nandakumar Affair
- A Duel Between The Two Most Powerful Men in Kolkata
- How to Get There
- Information For visitors
Alipore, a neighbourhood sprinkled with the homes of the rich and famous, was where most of Hastings’s Kolkata properties were. He lived for a long time in the Belvedere Estate, which is now the National Library with its landscaped grounds open to all. The Belvedere House belonged originally to the much derided Mir Jafar, who was installed as the n...
The day that I visited Belvedere, Kolkata had been washed by unseasonal rains making the lush grounds even more pleasingly green and verdant than usual. The lawns were speckled with marble statues, a legacy from the days of Hastings’s private parties, where the city’s who’s who would be entertained here. Apparently, there was even a small pond and ...
Hastings had come to India as a boy of 17 and spent all of his adult life in this country. When he was 24, he married Mary Buchannan at Cossimbazar, where he was posted at the time. They had two children — a boy and a girl — who both died young and when Mary herself unfortunately died early, Hastings was left a young widower. When Hastings had ente...
But there is more to the story of Hastings and the Belvedere Estate, beyond this tale of an accomplished man and his lady love. Hastings is often credited with laying the foundation of the British Empire in India. He was a great administrator and began the process of turning the East India Company into an administrative service. In the same year th...
It is time to introduce another character to this story; the scheming, ambitious Phillip Francis. A famous duel was fought on the Belvedere grounds between the two most powerful men in Kolkata. A duel that could have changed the course of India’s history. When the British government appointed Hastings as Governor-General, they also passed the Regul...
The Belvedere Estate is on Belvedere Road in Alipore. Close to the Alipore Zoo is a white-arched gateway with an imperial lion on top, which is the main entrance.To get to Duel Avenue, turn on to National Library Road and enter the gates of the Kolkata Armed Police complex. Drive past the police club auditorium towards the Meteorological department office,...The National Library is open 9am to 8pm.The library is in Bhasha Bhawan, which is on one side of the Estate, adjoining the white-coloured Hastings House and grounds.Free Entry.No toilet facilities (available at Bhasha Bhawan)- Adil Ahmad
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.
Here he depicted the near-shipwreck of Marian Hastings, wife of Warren Hastings, Governor General of Bengal, as she traveled to reach her husband’s sickbed in Calcutta. In this imagining of the scene, which Hodges did not witness (and which was painted after his return to London), Marian is hidden by the boat’s canopy; the muscular Indian ...
Oct 12, 2007 · 1. Richard Johnson (d. 1807), a former Company servant, was a partner in the house of Edwards, Templer, Middleton, Johnson and Wedgwood, with whom both the Hastings banked after 1795. 2. Hastings's statement of 22 Sept. 1795 (see above, p. 246). 3.
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Marian Hastings (née Anna Maria Apollonia Chapuset) (1747-1837), Former wife of Baron von Imhoff, and later second wife of Warren Hastings. Sitter in 7 portraits.
