born Dec. 6, 1732, Churchill, near Daylesford, Oxfordshire, Eng.
died Aug. 22, 1818, Daylesford
British colonial administrator in India.
He worked for the English Maratha Wars . This disrupted the company's trade and antagonized opinion in England, as did several dubious ventures Hastings entered into to raise extra funds. In 1785 he left India at peace and retired to England. In 1786 {{link=Burke, Edmund">Edmund Burke introduced an impeachment process against him on charges of corruption; after a trial that lasted from 1788 to 1795, Hastings was acquitted.
Warren Hastings, oil painting by Tilly Kettle; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Courtesy of The National Portrait Gallery, London