Excerpt from Bengal: Its Chiefs, Agents, and Governors Hastings, who was the last to bear the designation of Governor of Bengal. The incorrectness of the Government of India list may be explained by the circumstance that all the Records at Calcutta before 1752 were destroyed when Fort William was captured by suraj-ud-daula in 1756, and reliable materials were, .therefore, wanting from which to compile a list of early Governors. But, it may be asked, who were the Messrs. Freeke and Cruttenden who are stated in the Government list to have been Governors of Bengal in 1733 and 1738? In endeavouring to reply to this question, I have been unable to trace any one in the service in 1733 of the name of Freeke. It will be seen, however, from my list that there was a Mr. Samuel Fadka who was Governor from January 1718 to January 1723, and there was a Mr. Thomas Peake, a factor at Dacca, in 1735. This latter Mr. Feake became Chief at Dacca in 1745, and was transferred to the Council at Bengal in July 1749, but he was taken ill immediately after his transfer, and appears never to have taken his seat at the Council. He died on the 7th October 1750. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.