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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.
Warren Hastings (Churchill, 6 dicembre 1732 – Daylesford, 22 agosto 1818) è stato un politico britannico, primo Governatore-Generale delle Indie Orientali. Noto soprattutto per il giudizio di impeachment a suo carico causato dall'attacco di Edmund Burke nel 1787, che portò ad un lungo processo terminato con la completa ...
12 ott 2022 · Warren Hastings is famous for being the first Governor-General of the East India Company, appointed in 1774. He was infamously impeached by Parliament for corruption but was acquitted after a long and public trial.
- Mark Cartwright
- Warren Hastings attempted to reduce corruption in the East India Company (EIC) and allow Indians to rule themselves under the company's suzerainty,...
- Warren Hastings left India in 1785, and he then faced impeachment by Parliament on charges of corruption, charges for which he was ultimately acqui...
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.
Warren Hastings, (born Dec. 6, 1732, Churchill, near Daylesford, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died Aug. 22, 1818, Daylesford), British colonial administrator in India. He worked for the English East India Company from 1750, rising to membership in its council in Bengal (1761–64) and Madras (now Chennai; 1769).
India. Generale e uomo politico (Daylesford, Worcestershire, 1732 - ivi 1818). Di famiglia nobile decaduta emigrò in India (1750), arruolandosi nelle t...
Primo governatore generale dell'India Britannica. Nacque il 6 dicembre 1732 in Churchill presso Daylesford (Oxfordshire), da famiglia antica ma decaduta. Perdette i genitori in tenera età e fu educato al collegio di Westminster, sotto la tutela di uno zio prima e di un lontano parente poi.
