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21 de may. de 2018 · HASTINGS, WARREN (1732 – 1818), first governor-general of India. Warren Hastings was a competent, honorable, and farsighted administrator whose policies, some controversial, decisively shaped and stabilized future Anglo-Indian relations. The controversy surrounding his administration made him the subject of impeachment and trial in Great Britain.
Warren Hastings (governor of Bengal from 1772 and governor-general of the British territories in India from 1774 to 1785) stands not least among those ‘imperial icons’ that dominated old pro-consular histories, and his dramatic career has launched a large shelf-full of biographies.
Warren Hastings, Porträt von Joshua Reynolds, um 1767. Warren Hastings (* 6.Dezember 1732 in Churchill, Oxfordshire; † 22. August 1818 in Daylesford) war ein britischer Verwaltungsbeamter.
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 (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.
[1 -- Warren Hastings's distinguished but ruined family; his orphaned, bookish childhood] We are inclined to think that we shall best meet the wishes of our readers, if, instead of minutely examining this book, we attempt to give, in a way necessarily hasty and imperfect, our own view of the life and character of Mr. Hastings.
Sir Philip Francis (born Oct. 22, 1740, Dublin, Ire.—died Dec. 23, 1818, London, Eng.) was an English politician and pamphleteer, known as an antagonist of Warren Hastings, the first governor-general of British India. The son of a clergyman, he was educated in Dublin and London and held a variety of clerical posts in the government from 1756 ...
