Frederick James Halliday
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Sir Frederick James Halliday was a British civil servant and the first Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal.
1838 illustration by William Prinsep of Belvedere House, Calcutta. This became Halliday's official residence as lieutenant-governor from 1854.
Bengal Presidency
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The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal until 1937, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British India during Company rule and lat
Jahangir first permitted the East India Company (EIC) to trade in Bengal
Silver Rupee coins of the Bengal Presidency, struck in the name of Mughal emperor Shah Alam II; From top left: Rupee of George Saunders' issue of 1819 (Calcutta), Broad rimmed Rupee of Farrukhabad, Narrow rimmed Rupee of Farrukhabad, Rupee of Murshidabad from the 1780s, Rupee of Muhammadabad Benaras with the inverted mace symbol and rare fish mint mark.
Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey in 1757, which marked the defeat of the last independent Nawab of Bengal Siraj-ud-Daulah
The Impeachment of Warren Hastings