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Marquis of Hastings

The Most Honourable
The Marquess of Hastings
KG PC
Lord Moira.jpg
Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William
In office
4 October 1813 – 9 January 1823
Monarch George III
George IV
Preceded by The Lord Minto
Succeeded by John Adam
As Acting Governor-General
Governor of Malta
In office
22 March 1824 – 28 November 1826
Monarch George IV
Preceded by Hon. Thomas Maitland
Succeeded by Alexander George Woodford
As Acting Governor
Personal details
Born 9 December 1754 (1754-12-09)
County Down, Kingdom of Ireland
Died 28 November 1826(1826-11-28) (aged 71)
At sea off Naples
Nationality British
Spouse(s) Flora Campbell,
6th Countess of Loudoun
(1780–1840)
Military service
Allegiance  Great Britain
Service/branch British Army
Rank General
Commands Commander-in-Chief of India
Battles/wars American War of Independence
French Revolutionary Wars

Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, KG, PC (9 December 1754 – 28 November 1826), styled The Honourable Francis Rawdon from birth until 1762, as The Lord Rawdon between 1762 and 1783, and known as The Earl of Moira between 1793 and 1816, was an Anglo-Irish British politician and military officer who served as Governor-General of India from 1813 to 1823. He had also served with British forces for years during the American Revolutionary War and in 1794 during the French Revolutionary Wars. He took the additional surname 'Hastings' in 1790 in compliance with the will of his maternal uncle, Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon.

Marquess of Hastings by Hugh Douglas Hamilton (c.1801)

Marquess of Hastings, Governor-General of India by Joshua Reynolds (c.1812)

Francis Rawdon, Marquess of Hastings. Engraving. Fisher, Son & Co, London. 1829

Francis Rawdon, Marquess of Hastings by Henry Raeburn. 1813

Hastings was born at Moira, County Down, the son of John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira and Elizabeth Hastings, 13th Baroness Hastings. He grew up there and in Dublin, Ireland. He joined the British Army on 7 August 1771 as an ensign in the 15th Foot. (The going rate for purchasing a commission for this rank was 200.) He was at Harrow School and matriculated at University College, Oxford, but dropped out. He became friends there with Banastre Tarleton. With his uncle Lord Huntington, he went on the Grand Tour. On 20 October 1773, he was promoted to lieutenant in the 5th Foot. He returned to England to join his regiment, and sailed for America on 7 May 1774.


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