Burke : Edmund (1729-97), educated at Ballitore & Trinity College, Dublin 1743-8: founded the Annual Register 1759: Private Secretary to Lord Rockingham, Prime Minister 1765: attacked East India Co. 1766: opposed Lord North’s “Regulating Act” 1773: Member of Committee on affairs of E.I. Co. 1783, wrote both the Ninth Report on the trade of Bengal & the system pursued by Warren Hastings, & the Eleventh Report on the system of presents: drafted Fox’s East India Bill 1783: attacked Hastings in a speech on the debts of the Nawab of Arcot in 1785, & again on the Rohillas in 1786: impeached Hastings before the House of Lords May 1787: led the impeachment at the trial of Hastings in Westminster Hall Feb 1788: secured its continuation in a new Parliament 1790: spoke for nine days in May-June 1794, in reply to Hastings’ defence: his speeches delivered in connection with the impeachment of Warren Hastings “made for an awareness of the responsibilities of empire & the injustices in India unknown before in England”: Hastings was acquitted in April 1795: Burke died July 9, 1797. [Buckland]
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