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Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquis of

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Governor-General of India; entering the army in 1771, he saw active service in the American War and in Holland; succeeded his father in the earldom of Moira; was in 1813 appointed to the Governor-Generalship of India; he was instrumental in extending the Company's territories, and pacifying the warlike Goorkhas, for which, in 1816, he was created Marquis of Hastings; latterly he held the Governorship of Malta (1754-1826).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Hastings, Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquis of'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​h/hastings-francis-rawdon-hastings-marquis-of.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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