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'''Warren Hastings''' PC (1732–1818) was the first [[Governor-General]] of India. He joined the East India Company and , went to Calcutta in 1750and rose to be Resident at Murshidabad. After the conquest of Bengal he returned to England but ran up large debts. He returned to India as deputy ruler of Madras. In 1772 he was appointed Governor of Bengal. He made enemies among the East India Company councillors and his reputation in England was damaged. He eventually resigned in 1785 and returned home. Far from receiving the honours he felt he deserved he was impeached for corruption and it was eight years before he was finally acquitted. He eventually became a Privy Councillor.

[http://www.archive.org/stream/warrenhastings00macagoog#page/n8/mode/2up ''Warren Hastings''] by Macaulay archive.org<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/booksebooks/reader?id=YzkNAAAAYAAJ2-0yAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage The Life frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PA3 ''Article of Charge of General H. Havelock KCBHigh Crimes and Misdemeanors''] by Edmund Burke 1786 Google Books<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books/reader?id=UvgdAAAAMAAJ5tY9AAAAcAAJ&pgprintsec=PA1frontcover&dqoutput=Memoirs+of+Major-General+Sir+Henry+Havelock+(1860)&ei=0YqhR57UMI-oiQGMj_S2Cg#PPP11,M1 Memoirs of Sir Henry Havelockreader ''The Answer to the Articles''] by Warren Hastings 1788 Google Books<br>