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Authorised form of nameHastings; Warren (1732 - 1818)
Dates1732 - 1818
NationalityBritish
Place of birthChurchill, Oxfordshire, England
Date of birth06 December 1732
Place of deathDaylesford, Worcestershire
Date of death22 August 1818
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Near Daylesford church, Worcestershire
OccupationPolitician
ActivityCareer:
Went to Calcutta as a writer in the service of the HEIC (1750); British Resident, Murshidabad (1758-1761); Governor of Bengal and President of the Council (1772); Governor General (1773); resigned and returned to England (1784); impeached and tried (1788-1795) and acquitted (1795)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election25/06/1801
RelationshipsSon of Pynaston Hastings and Hester Warren; related to Samuel Turner (FRS 1801)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 1. 1731-1847' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 307-332
CodeNA7416
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/001981Hastings, Warrennd
EC/1801/14Hastings, Warren: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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