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Governors-General and Viceroys of India

The first governors-general of India were appointed by the British East India Company, and based at Fort William in Calcutta (today called Kolkata). The office was redefined in 1833, and in 1858 it was abolished when the East India Company lost its authority in India. A new position, governor-general and viceroy, was created to represent British power in India.
Governors-General of Fort William in Bengal
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
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
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
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