沃倫·黑斯廷斯

Quotes

• “The writers of the Indian philosophies will survive, when the British dominion in IndIa shall long have ceased to exist, and when the sources which it yielded of wealth and power are lost to remembrances.”
• “I hesitate not to pronounce the Gita a performance of great origmality, of sublimity of conception, reasoning and diction almost unequalled; and a single exception, amongst all the known religions of mankind.”

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Key facts

Monarch

George III

Preceded by

Position created

Succeeded by

Sir John Macpherson, Bt , As acting Governor-General

Born

( 1732-12-06 ) 6 December 1732, Churchill, Oxfordshire

Died

22 August 1818 (1818-08-22) (aged 85), Daylesford, Gloucestershire

Spouse s

Mary Buchanan ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1756 ; died 1759 ) ​ , Marian Hastings ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1777 ) ​

Education

Westminster School

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Wikidata facts

Image

Warren Hastings by Tilly Kettle.jpg

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