Warren Hastings FRS (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818) was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first governor-general of Bengal in 1772–1785.

沃伦·黑斯廷斯（Warren Hastings，1732年12月17日-1818年8月12日），英国殖民官员。 首任驻印度孟加拉总督 (1774～1785)。 生于牛津郡。 最初受雇于东印度公司 (1750)，后步入政界。

沃倫·黑斯廷斯 FRS （英語： Warren Hastings，1732年12月6日—1818年8月22日）， 英國 殖民地 官員，長年在 印度 各地任職，1772年2月擔任威廉堡省主席，1773改稱威廉堡省總督，直至1785年為首任 印度總督 （當時職稱為威廉堡省總督）。

Warren Hastings (born December 6, 1732, Churchill, near Daylesford, Oxfordshire, England—died August 22, 1818, Daylesford) was the first and most famous of the British governors-general of India, who dominated Indian affairs from 1772 to 1785 and was impeached (though acquitted) on his return to England.

2022年10月12日 · Warren Hastings (1732-1818) was appointed the Governor of Bengal by the British East India Company (EIC) in 1772 and became its first Governor-General in India from 1774 to 1785. Under his tenure, the EIC ruthlessly expanded its territory both in terms of conquest and through treaties of alliance with Indian princely states.

Warren Hastings, a key figure in British India's colonial history, was the first Governor-General of Bengal from 1773 to 1785. He implemented significant administrative, judicial, and economic reforms that laid the groundwork for British governance in India.

Warren Hastings (December 7 1732 - August 22 1818) was the first Governor-General of India, from 1773 to 1785. He was born at Churchill, Oxfordshire. He attended Westminster School before joining the British East India Company in 1750 as a clerk. In 1757 he was made the British Resident (administrative in charge) of Murshidabad.

Warren Hastings (1732 – 1818) became the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal) in 1772 and the first Governor-General of Bengal in 1774 till he resigned in 1785. He started his career as a writer (clerk) in the East India Company at Calcutta in 1750.

Warren Hastings (December 6, 1732 - August 22, 1818) was the first and most well-known governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. He was famously impeached in 1787 for corruption, and acquitted in 1795.

The first Governor-General of India was Warren Hastings, who occupied that high position from 1773 to 1784. While Clive was content with creating the impression that the Nawab of Bengal remained sovereign, subject only in some matters to the dictate of the Mughal Emperor, Hastings moved swiftly to remove this fiction.