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 ...
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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 ...
At British History On-line we read that it closed in 1923, not 1915 as per the plaque.
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