Essay on Warren Hastings

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Warren Hastings was the first Governor-General of India. Macaulay has in this essay produced and preserved for the ages a graphic picture of the times, circumstance, and character of Hastings. Thomas Babington Macaulay - historian, critic, poet, and philosopher - was born in 1800. Macaulay was a Member of Parliament, moved to India where his official duties were as Member of Council, and where he wrote numerous magazine articles and essays. His greatest work was the multi-volume set of History of England.