The Oriental club and Hanover Square . uently been styled the First Governor-General of India,but that description is inaccurate. He was appointed Governor of Bengal in 1772, and in thefollowing year the title was changed to Governor-General ofFort William, in Bengal, which was the designation of theChief Administrator until 1834, when Lord Wilham H. became the first Governor-General of India. The first Viceroy and Governor-General of India wasViscount Canning, who was so nominated in 1856. Mr. Hastings came to England in 1786 to meet the chargesof tyrannical and arbitrary governmen
The Oriental club and Hanover Square . uently been styled the First Governor-General of India,but that description is inaccurate. He was appointed Governor of Bengal in 1772, and in thefollowing year the title was changed to Governor-General ofFort William, in Bengal, which was the designation of theChief Administrator until 1834, when Lord Wilham H. became the first Governor-General of India. The first Viceroy and Governor-General of India wasViscount Canning, who was so nominated in 1856. Mr. Hastings came to England in 1786 to meet the chargesof tyrannical and arbitrary government, of extortion andoppression, that were raised against him, and of which, afternine years judicial proceedings, he was acquitted. Even then he had to pay the cost of his defence, some70,000Z., for which the Court of Directors partially indemnifiedhim by granting him an annual pension of 4,000/. for died in 1818. John James Masquerier, who painted our portrait, was bornof French parentage at Chelsea in 1778. His reputation was. /Jarr(t //ryJ f jJ</ Our Portraits 233 made by a portrait that he painted of the First Napoleon. Hedied at Brighton in 1855. Jeejeebhoy, Sie Jamsetjee, Bakt. In 1852 Lady IsabellaFitzgibbon wrote to our Committee that she had resolved topresent to the Oriental Club the magnificent portrait of theParsee baronet, painted for her brother, the late Earl of generous offer was accepted, and the portrait forms oneof our collection, but I do not know that it is magnificentin any other sense than that of being on a grand scale andgorgeously framed. It is possible that, after the death of her brother, her lady-ship found this portrait a somewhat cumbersome piece ofhousehold goods, and was glad to find it a home in the Club,where at that time there were many members who had beenacquainted with the charitable and kindly gentleman of Bom-bay, whose generous hand bestowed vast favours not only onthose of his own religious belief, but on the inhab
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