first Governor General of India - Daylesford Gloucestershire
Memorial - " In ta vault just beyond the eastern extremity of this church, lies the body of the Right Honorable Warren Hastings of Daylesford House in this parish. The first Governor General of the British Territories of India. A member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. LLD & ERS. The last public effort of whose eminently virtuous and lengthen'd life was the re-erection of this sacred edifice which he superintended with singular energy and interest to its completion; And in which Alas ! the holy rites of sepulture were very shortly afterwards performed over his mortal remains. He died on the 22nd of August 1818 aged 85 years and 8 months.
Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace"
Born into a poor family on 6th December 1732 in Churchill, Oxon in 1732, the son of Penystone Hastings by Hester Hastings who died soon after he was born.
In 1743 he attended Westminster School, where he became king's scholar and captain of the school in 1747. In 1750 he travelled to Calcutta [Kolkata] to work as a writer in the East India Company's Bengal service. His first appointment was at Cossimbazar, near the nawab's capital at Murshidabad.
He m1 1756 Mary Elliott (d. 1759) widow of Captain John Buchanan.
He m2 Anna Maria Apollonia Chapuset (1747-1837) (Marian) widow of Baron Christoph Carl Adam von Imhoff, who he met whilst sailing from Britain to Madras in 1769.
He spent 2 successful years at Madras and his management of the company's commercial concerns was particularly commended. In 1772 the directors of the East India Company appointed him as governor of Bengal. From the outset of his government Hastings felt obliged to impress on British opinion the importance of what Britain had acquired in Bengal. He believed that Bengal must be governed in ways to which its people were presumed to be accustomed. Indian methods of government and Indian law must be preserved. During his time as governor he moved the central government to Calcutta under direct British control and remodelled the justice system. In 1774 he acquired the new title of governor-general.
He retired in 1785 and returned to England. In 1786,
Edmund Burke introduced an impeachment process against him on charges of corruption, and following a trial that lasted from 1788 to 1795, Hastings was acquitted.
In his later years he received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University and was made a privy counsellor.
In 1793 he bought back Daylesford manor which the Hastings family had owned since the 13c, but had had to sell in 1709 due to the decline in their fortunes following their loyalty to King Charles l in the Civil War.
In his later years he received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University and was made a privy counsellor.
In the following years, he remodelled Daylesford House to the designs of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, modelling it on the grand house he had built at Alipore in India.
Before his death he also rebuilt the medieval church using the old materials which (sadly fo him) was rebuilt yet again in 1859-63 for Harman Grisewood
He lies in the churchyard www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/500A7T
In accordance with a settlement of 1798 he left the property to his wife Marian for her life with reversion to Sir Charles Imhoff, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/rxvL88 her son by her first husband. Marian died in 1837, and Charles subsequently remained in possession of the manor until 1853 when he sold it to Mr. Harman Grisewood, who retained it till his death in 1874 )
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Hastings - Church of St Peter, Daylesford Gloucestershire
first Governor General of India - Daylesford Gloucestershire
Memorial - " In ta vault just beyond the eastern extremity of this church, lies the body of the Right Honorable Warren Hastings of Daylesford House in this parish. The first Governor General of the British Territories of India. A member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. LLD & ERS. The last public effort of whose eminently virtuous and lengthen'd life was the re-erection of this sacred edifice which he superintended with singular energy and interest to its completion; And in which Alas ! the holy rites of sepulture were very shortly afterwards performed over his mortal remains. He died on the 22nd of August 1818 aged 85 years and 8 months.
Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace"
Born into a poor family on 6th December 1732 in Churchill, Oxon in 1732, the son of Penystone Hastings by Hester Hastings who died soon after he was born.
In 1743 he attended Westminster School, where he became king's scholar and captain of the school in 1747. In 1750 he travelled to Calcutta [Kolkata] to work as a writer in the East India Company's Bengal service. His first appointment was at Cossimbazar, near the nawab's capital at Murshidabad.
He m1 1756 Mary Elliott (d. 1759) widow of Captain John Buchanan.
He m2 Anna Maria Apollonia Chapuset (1747-1837) (Marian) widow of Baron Christoph Carl Adam von Imhoff, who he met whilst sailing from Britain to Madras in 1769.
He spent 2 successful years at Madras and his management of the company's commercial concerns was particularly commended. In 1772 the directors of the East India Company appointed him as governor of Bengal. From the outset of his government Hastings felt obliged to impress on British opinion the importance of what Britain had acquired in Bengal. He believed that Bengal must be governed in ways to which its people were presumed to be accustomed. Indian methods of government and Indian law must be preserved. During his time as governor he moved the central government to Calcutta under direct British control and remodelled the justice system. In 1774 he acquired the new title of governor-general.
He retired in 1785 and returned to England. In 1786,
Edmund Burke introduced an impeachment process against him on charges of corruption, and following a trial that lasted from 1788 to 1795, Hastings was acquitted.
In his later years he received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University and was made a privy counsellor.
In 1793 he bought back Daylesford manor which the Hastings family had owned since the 13c, but had had to sell in 1709 due to the decline in their fortunes following their loyalty to King Charles l in the Civil War.
In his later years he received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University and was made a privy counsellor.
In the following years, he remodelled Daylesford House to the designs of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, modelling it on the grand house he had built at Alipore in India.
Before his death he also rebuilt the medieval church using the old materials which (sadly fo him) was rebuilt yet again in 1859-63 for Harman Grisewood
He lies in the churchyard www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/500A7T
In accordance with a settlement of 1798 he left the property to his wife Marian for her life with reversion to Sir Charles Imhoff, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/rxvL88 her son by her first husband. Marian died in 1837, and Charles subsequently remained in possession of the manor until 1853 when he sold it to Mr. Harman Grisewood, who retained it till his death in 1874 )
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Hastings - Church of St Peter, Daylesford Gloucestershire