Warren Hastings

(1732-1818)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818 NRA: Hastings Warren (1732-1818) Governor General of India DNB: Hastings, Warren (1732-1818), governor-general of Bengal LBT ID: WaHasti1818 VIAF ID: 29571391 LOC ID: n84108880	B/BAP: 1732-12-06 DIED: 1818-08-22
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Governor-general of Bengal (1774-84); he was charged high crimes by Edmund Burke, initiating impeachment proceedings that continued from 1787 to 1795, when Hastings was acquitted.
REFERENCES TO Warren Hastings: Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown., 1821) THE WORTHIES OF THE GEORGIAN AGE. Verse 2: p. 37a p. 37a Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Sir Walter Scott Found 1: ¶ 13 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XVI. 1776-1790 Found 1: ¶ 13 Ch XIII. 1816-1820 Found 1: ¶ 22 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 25 Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 85 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 7 Found 1: ¶ 23 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. III. 1788-1792 Found 1: ¶ 5 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1816-1818. Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter VIII. 1818-19. Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter IV. 1838-41. Found 1: ¶ 59 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 4 Chap. XXIII. Found 1: ¶ 52 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. III: 1805 Found 4: ¶ n1 ¶ 50 ¶ n1 ¶ 56 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) ELIJAH BARWELL IMPEY Found 4: ¶ 12 ¶ 15 ¶ 18 ¶ 19 BEAU BRUMMELL Found 2: ¶ 13 ¶ 14