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, ...
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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 ...
A large board in the garden announces: The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) Garden of Remembrance. Dedicated to the officers an...
The foundation stone is low down at the right hand side of the building. Above each of the two statues is a bust, both of the Greek god v...
This ornate extravaganza, designed by the splendidly named Fitzroy Doll, was built in 1898. Ornamental Passions has a good post about the...
These plaques mark property boudaries and identify ownership.
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