Biography of warren hastings
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Warren Hastings
Governor-General of Bengal, –
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Warren HastingsFRS (6 December – 22 August ) 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 – He and Robert Clive are credited with laying the foundation of the British Empire in India.[2][3] He was an energetic organizer and reformer.
In – he led forces of the East India Company against a coalition of native states and the French.
Biography of warren hastings
In the end, the well-organized British side held its own, while France lost influence in India. In , he was accused of corruption and impeached, but he was eventually acquitted in after a long trial. He was made a privy councillor in
Early life and education
Warren Hastings was born in Churchill, Oxfordshire, in to Reveren