Warren Hastings FRS
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Warren Hastings FRS (1732 - 1818)

Warren Hastings FRS
Born in Churchill, Oxfordshire, Englandmap
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Died at age 85 in Daylesford, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdommap
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Biography

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Warren Hastings (1732 – 1818), an English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), India, and thereby the first British Governor-General of India from 1774 to 1785. He played a central role in the history of the East India Company. He is also notable as the friend and patron of novelist Jane Austen and her family.

Born 6 December 1732 at Churchill, Oxfordshire, Hastings was the son of Penyston Hastings (b. 1708) and Hester Warren.

In 1787, he was accused of corruption and impeached, but after a long trial, he was acquitted in 1795. The letters and journals of Jane Austen and her family, who knew Hastings well, show that they followed the trial closely.

In 1788 he acquired the estate at Daylesford, Gloucestershire, including the site of the medieval seat of the Hastings family at a cost of £54,000. In the following years, he remodelled the mansion to the designs of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, with classical and Indian decoration, and gardens landscaped by John Davenport. He also rebuilt the local Norman church in 1816, where he was buried two years later.

Hastings was made a Privy Counsellor in 1814.

Hastings died 22 August 1818 at his estate in Daylesford.

Sources

Hyamson, Albert Montefiore. A Dictionary of Universal Biography of All Ages and of All Peoples (London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1916). Warren Hastings is listed (one line) on p. 289.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed. Dictionary of National Biography (New York: MacMillan and Co., 1887). Vol XXV. See biography of Warren Hastings on pp. 136 - 149.

15 Dec 1732 Baptism Record

Warren Hastings in the England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975

  • Name: Warren Hastings
  • Gender: Male
  • Baptism Date: 15 Dec 1732
  • Baptism Place: Churchill,Oxford,England
  • Father: Penniston Hastings
  • FHL Film Number: 95230

Source Information Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

Original data: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Description This collection includes birth and christening records from England.

Death record

Warren Hastings in the Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1965

  • Name: Warren Hastings
  • Age: 86
  • Birth Year: abt 1732
  • Burial Date: 30 Aug 1818
  • Burial Place: Daylesford, Oxfordshire , England
  • Parish as it Appears: Daylesford

Source Citation Oxfordshire Family History Society; Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; Anglican Parish Registers; Reference Number: PAR85/1/R5/1

Source Information Ancestry.com. Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1965 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

Original data: Anglican Parish Registers, Oxfordshire Family History Society and Oxfordshire History Centre. Please be aware that images may not be used for purposes incompatible with the tenets of the Church of England, and that the Church of England or its agents may take action against anyone who does so.

Description This collection contains images of Church of England burial records for the years 1813–1965 from Oxfordshire, England.

16 October 1818 Probate Record

The Right Honorable Warren Hastings in the England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858

  • Name: The Right Honorable Warren Hastings
  • Probate Date: 16 Oct 1818

Source Citation The National Archives; Kew, England; Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 1609

Source Information Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

Find A Grave Memorial

Warren Hastings in the UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current

Go to website: Find A Grave Memorial No. 13698489

  • Name: Warren Hastings
  • Birth Date: 6 Dec 1732
  • Death Date: 22 Aug 1818
  • Cemetery: St Peter Churchyard
  • Burial or Cremation Place: Daylesford, Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, England
  • Has Bio?: Y

Source Information Ancestry.com. UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.

Description This database contains an index to cemetery and burial details posted on Find A Grave.

See also:

  • 'Jane Austen's Family through Five Generations' by Maggie Lane, published by Robert Hale Limited, London. ISBN 0 7090 4832 7. Includes extensive family trees. Details of contemporaries and other connections are also mentioned in the text.Jane Austen's Family through Five Generations




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