Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (9 December 1754 – 28 November 1826), styled
The Honourable Francis Rawdon from birth until 1762, as
The Lord Rawdon between 1762 and 1783, and known as
The Earl of Moira between 1793 and 1816, was an
Anglo-Irish British politician and military officer who served as
Governor-General of India from 1813 to 1823. He had also served with British forces for years during the
American Revolutionary War and in 1794 during the
French Revolutionary Wars. He took the additional surname 'Hastings' in 1790 in compliance with the will of his maternal uncle,
Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon.