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Died February 4, 1690 • Mumbai • India
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Warren Hastings, oil painting by Tilly Kettle; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Stringer Lawrence, oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Charles T. Metcalfe
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Thomas Pitt, detail of a print after an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller
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