The
Viceroy of India was the highest position in the
Indian administration during the
British Raj. It was considered one of the most powerful offices in the
world.
The term viceroy derives from vice and royal. The Viceroy's wife was called the vicerine. The office was created in 1858,
- Charles John Canning, 2nd Viscount Canning[?], 1st Earl Canning (1859) 1858 - 1862
- James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin[?], 12th Earl of Kincardine 1862 - 1863
- Sir John Lawrence[?] 1864 - 1869
- Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo[?] 1869 - 1872
- Thomas George Baring, 1st Viscount Baring of Lee[?] 1872 - 1876
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Lord Lytton[?] 1876 - 1880
- George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon[?] 1880 - 1884
- Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Earl of Dufferin[?] 1884 - 1888
- Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne[?] 1888 - 1894
- Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin[?], 13th Earl of Kincardine 1894 - 1899
- George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon of Kedleston 1899 - 1905
- Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto 1905 - 1910
- Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst[?] 1910 - 1916
- Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 3rd Baron Chelmsford of Chelmsford[?] 1916 - 1921
- Rufus Isaacs, 1st Baron Reading of Erleigh[?] 1921 - 1925
- Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Baron Irwin 1926 - 1929
- George Joachim Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen of Hawkshurst[?] 1929 - 1931
- George Freeman-Thomas, Earl of Willingdon[?] 1931 - 1936
- Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow[?] 1936 - 1943
- Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Viscount Wavell 1943 - 1947
- Louis Mountbatten, 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma 1947
