| Governors-General of Fort William in Bengal |
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| Warren Hastings |
1774-1784 |
| Sir John Macpherson (acting) |
1785-1786 |
| Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis |
1786-1793 |
| Sir John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth |
1793-1798 |
| Sir Alured Clarke (acting) |
1798 |
| Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley |
1798-1805 |
| Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis |
1805 |
| Sir George Barlow |
1805-1806 |
| Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto |
1806-1813 |
| Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings |
1813-1823 |
| John Adam (acting) |
1823 |
| William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst of Arracan |
1823-1828 |
| William Butterworth Bayley (acting) |
1828 |
| William Cavendish Bentinck, Lord Bentinck |
1828-1833 |
| Governors-General of India |
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| William Cavendish Bentinck, Lord Bentinck |
1833-1835 |
| Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe (acting) |
1835 |
| George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland |
1836-1842 |
| Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough |
1842-1844 |
| William Wilberforce Bird (acting) |
1844 |
| Henry Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Lahore |
1844-1847 |
| James Andrew Broun Ramsay, 1st Marquess and Earl of Dalhousie |
1848-1856 |
| Charles John Canning, Viscount Canning |
1856 |
| Governors-General and Viceroys |
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| Charles John Canning, Viscount Canning |
1858-1862 |
| James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin |
1862-1863 |
| Sir Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (acting) |
November-December 1863 |
| Sir William Denison (acting) |
December 1863-January 1864 |
| John Laird Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence |
1864-1869 |
| Robert Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo |
1869-1872 |
| Sir John Strachey (acting) |
February 1872 |
| Sir Francis Napier, 9th Baron Napier (acting) |
February-May 1872 |
| Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook |
1872-1876 |
| Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton |
1876-1880 |
| George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon |
1880-1884 |
| Frederick Hamilton-Temple Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava |
1884-1888 |
| Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne |
1888-1894 |
| Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin |
1894-1899 |
| George Curzon, 1st Marquis Curzon of Kedleston |
1899-1904 |
| Arthur Oliver Villiers Russell, Lord Ampthill (acting) |
1904 |
| George Curzon, 1st Marquis Curzon of Kedleston |
1904-1905 |
| Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto |
1905-1910 |
| Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst |
1910-1916 |
| Frederick John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount of Chelmsford |
1916-1921 |
| Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading |
1921-1925 |
| Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton (acting) |
1925-1926 |
| Edward Frederick Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax |
1926-1929 |
| George Joachim Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen |
1929-1931 |
| Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon |
1931-1936 |
| Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow |
1936-1943 |
| Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell |
1943-1947 |
| Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma |
1947 |