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Hastings Street : in Calcutta, connecting Dalhousie Square & Strand Road was named, not after Warren Hastings, but Francis Rawdon, First Marquis of Hastings (1754-1826): eldest son of the first Earl of Moira: entered the Army 1771 & the 5th foot 1773: to America: engaged at Bunker’s Hill 1775 & in other battles till 1781: Lt-Col. & Adjutant-Gen. in America 1778: captured by the French on his voyage to England 1781: made Baron Rawdon 1783: took the additional name Hastings 1790: succeeded as Earl of Moira 1793: commanded reinforcements in Flanders: Lt-Gen. 1798: C-in-C in Scotland: General 1803: Master of Ordnance 1806: Constable of the Tower of London: Gov.-Gen. & C-in-C of India Oct. 1813 to Jan. 1823: war against Nepal, 1814-6 created Marquis of Hastings for his success: took command in the Pindari war of 1817-8 & made subsidiary treaties with them: deposed the cowardly Peshwa Bājirao II & defeated the Mahratta Confederacy thus making the British power supreme all over India: resigned because his order to W. Palmer & Co. of Hyderabad to lend 60 lakhs to the Nizam was disallowed by E.I. Co.’s Directors: his statue was erected in Calcutta by the British residents there: wrote lengthy summary of his Indian administration, victorious wars & extension of British territory as well as for his personal ability, both in his civil & military capacities. [Buckland: 193, 321]