On this spot Warren Hastings stood his trial 1788 - 1795. He was acquitted on all the charges.
SW1, St Margaret Street, Westminster Hall
These 11 plaques are laid into the floor of the hall, in a line down the middle, in this sequence, starting at the entrance end: R101; Hastings; Wentworth; More; Churchill; King Edward VII; Gladstone; King George VI and Queen Elizabeth; and King George V and Queen Mary.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Westminster Hall - Hastings
Born Oxfordshire. Joined the British East India Company as a clerk and rose t...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Westminster Hall - Hastings
Winston Churchill lay in state here from the twenty seventh of January until ...
Here rested, from May 17 until interment at Windsor May 20 1910, Edward VII, ...
We were unfamiliar with the word 'sepulture'. In this context it means the ri...
His Majesty King George the Sixth lay in state here from the eleventh of Febr...
His Majesty King George the Fifth lay in state here from the twenty-third of ...
That shape at the top of the stone (filled in with cement, we think) would have been used to hold an identifying shield, possibly lost fo...
Arthur Stanley Wint 1920 - 1992, RAF pilot,doctor & diplomat, gold medal olympian, lived at this address 1949 - 1960. Chinara Enterpr...
Benny Hill, 1922-1992, comedian, lived here 1960-1986, The Dead Comics Society.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859 - 1930, creator of Sherlock Holmes lived here, 1891 - 1894. Greater London Council
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