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Warren Hastings NPG 390

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Warren Hastings was Governor-General of Bengal and epitomised the luck, spirit and ruthlessness on which the British empire was built. Arriving in India aged seventeen, he rose swiftly through the ranks of the East India Company, the trading body that held the political reigns of Britain’s Asian territories. Though a considerable statesman, doubts began to surface over Hastings’s methods and morals. In a parliamentary attack, mounted by the statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke, Hastings was accused of embezzling funds and ordering the judicial murder of… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.