Governors-General of Fort William in Bengal
Regulating Act of 1773
Warren Hastings
1774 (October)
Sir John Macpherson
1785 (February)
Marquess Cornwallis
1786 (September)
Sir John Shore (Lord Teignmouth)
1793 (October)
Sir Alured Clarke
1798 (March)
Earl of Mornington (Marquess Wellesley)
1798 (May)
Marquess Cornwallis
1805 (30th July)
Sir George Barlow
1805 (October)
Baron (1st Earl of) Minto
1807 (July)
Earl of Moira (Marquess of Hastings)
1813 (4th October)
John Adam
1823 (January)
Baron (Earl) William Pitt Amherst
1823 (1st August)
William Butterworth Bayley
1828 (March)
Lord William Cavendish-Bentinck
1828 (4th July)
Governors-General of India
Charter Act of 1833
Lord William Cavendish-Bentinck
1833
Sir Charles (Lord) Metcalfe
1835 (20th March)
Baron (Earl of) Auckland
1836 (March)
Baron (Earl of) Ellenborough
1842 (February)
William Wilberforce Bird
1844 (June)
Sir Henry (Viscount) Hardinge
1844 (July)
Earl (Marquess) of Dalhousie
1848 (January)
Viscount (Earl) Canning
1856 (February)
Governors-General and Viceroys
Direct Rule
Viscount (Earl) Canning
1858 (1st November)
8th Earl of Elgin
1862 (March)
Sir Robert Napier
1863
Sir William T. Denison
1863
Sir John (Lord) Lawrence
1864 (January)
Earl of Mayo
1869 (January)
Sir John Strachey
1872
Lord Napier of Merchistoun
1872
Rt Hon Thomas George Baring, Earl of Northbrook
1872 (May)
Baron (1st Earl of) Lytton
1876 (April)
Marquess of Ripon
1880 (June)
Earl of Dufferin
1884 (December)
Marquess of Landsdowne
1888 (December)
9th Earl of Elgin
1894 (January)
Baron (Marquess) Curzon of Kedleston
1899 (6th January)
Lord Ampthill
1904 (April)
Baron (Marquess) Curzon of Kedleston
1904 (December)
4th Earl of Minto
1905 (November)
Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
1910 (November)
Baron Chelmsford
1916 (April)
Earl of Reading
1921 (April)
2nd Earl of Lytton
1925
Lord Irwin
1926 (April)
Lord Goschen
1929
Earl of Willingdon
1931 (April)
Sir George Stanley
Officiating
1934 (May-August)
Earl of Willingdon
1934
Marquess of Linlithgow
1936 (18th April)
Governors-General and Crown Representatives
Act of 1935
Marquess of Linlithgow
1937 (31st March)
Baron Brabourne
Officiating
1938 (June-October)
Marquess of Linlithgow
1938
Viscount (Earl) Wavell
1943
Sir John Colville
Officiating
1945
Viscount (Earl) Mountbatten
1947 (March-August)


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