biography
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| lived:
| (1732–1818)
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| biography:
| British colonial administrator in India, born in Churchill, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. Educated at Westminster, he joined the East India Company in 1750, and by 1774 was Governor-General of Bengal. Carrying out several reforms, he made the Company's power paramount in many parts of India. However, wars (1778–84) interfered with trade, and damaged his reputation, and on his return to England in 1784 he was charged with corruption. After a seven-year trial, he was acquitted. The Company made provision for his declining years, which he spent as a country gentleman in Daylesford, Gloucestershire. |
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