August the 22nd in the year of Our Lord 1818. This memorial was erected by his beloved wife and disconsolate widow, M.A. Hastings He was born at Churchill in Oxfordshire on 6th December 1732, a son of ...

On this day, began the trial of Warren Hastings, the former Governor-General of Bengal, at Westminster Hall, London. His critics included Whig parliamentarians Edmund Burke, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, ...