Hastings,Warren

Hastings,Warren
Hastings, Warren. 1732-1818.
British colonial administrator who as governor-general of India (1773-1785) carried out land and legal reforms and instituted British control of the Indian government.

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  • Hastings, Warren — 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… …   Universalium

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  • HASTINGS, WARREN —    first Governor General of India, born at Churchill, Oxfordshire; early left an orphan, he was maintained at Westminster School by his uncle, and at 17 received a clerkship in the East India Company; for 14 years his life was occupied in… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Warren Hastings — (* 6. Dezember 1732 in Churchill, Oxfordshire; † 22. August 1818 in Daylesford) war Generalgouverneur in Britisch Ostindien. Er wurde in Westminster und Oxford unterrichtet, erhielt 1750 eine Schreiberstelle bei der …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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  • Warren Hastings — [Warren Hastings] (1732–1818) an important figure in the ↑East India Company who later became the first ↑Governor General of India. When he returned to Britain in 1785, he was accused of ↑corruption but was found not guilty after a trial lasting… …   Useful english dictionary

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  • Hastings [2] — Hastings, Warren, geb. 1732, Sohn eines Landpfarrers, von altem aber gänzl. heruntergekommenem Geschlechte, ging 1749 als Schreiber nach Ostindien, verdankte seine Erhebung sowohl Kriegsdiensten unter Clive als seiner Kenntniß der oriental.… …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

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