<Tr> <Th> Nationality </Th> <Td> British </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Alma mater </Th> <Td> Westminster School </Td> </Tr> <P> Warren Hastings (6 December 1732--22 August 1818), an English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor - General of India from 1772 to 1785 . He was accused of corruption and impeached in 1787, but after a long trial he was acquitted in 1795 . He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1814 . </P> <P> Hastings was born in Churchill, Oxfordshire in 1732 to a poor father, Penystone Hastings, and a mother, Hester Hastings, who died soon after he was born . He attended Westminster School where he was a contemporary of the future Prime Ministers Lord Shelburne and the Duke of Portland as well as the poet William Cowper . He joined the British East India Company in 1750 as a clerk and sailed out to India reaching Calcutta in August 1750 . Hastings built up a reputation for hard work and diligence, and spent his free time learning about India and mastering Urdu and Persian . He was rewarded for his work in 1752 when he was promoted and sent to Kasimbazar, an important British trading post in Bengal where he worked for William Watts . While there he received further lessons about the nature of East Indian politics . </P>

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