President
of the Board of Control
The
President of the Board of Control
was a British government official in the late 18th and early 19th century responsible
for overseeing the
British
East India Company and generally serving as the chief official in London responsible
for
Indian affairs. The position
was frequently a cabinet level one. The position was abolished in
1858
with the abolition of the East India Company. It was succeeded by the new position
of
Secretary
of State for India.
Presidents
of the Board of Control, 1784-1858
- Thomas
Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney 1784-1790
- William
Wyndham Grenville, 1st Lord Grenville 1790-1793
- Henry
Dundas 1793-1801
- George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth 1801-1802
- Robert
Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh 1802-1806
- Gilbert Elliot, 1st Lord
Minto 1806
- Thomas Grenville 1806-1807
- Robert
Dundas 1807-1809
- Dudley
Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby 1809
- Robert
Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1811) 1809-1812
- Robert Hobart, 4th
Earl of Buckinghamshire 1812-1816
- George
Canning 1816-1821
- Charles Bathurst 1821-1822
- Charles Watkin
Williams Wynn 1822-1828
- Robert
Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville 1828
- Edward
Law, 2nd Lord Ellenborough 1828-1830
- Charles Grant 1830-1834
- Edward
Law, 2nd Lord Ellenborough 1834-1835
- Sir John Cam Hobhouse, bt. 1835-1841
- Edward
Law, 2nd Lord Ellenborough 1841
- William Vesey Fitzgerald, 1st Lord
Fitzgerald 1841-1843
- Frederick
John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon 1843-1846
- Sir John Cam Hobhouse,
bt. 1846-1852
- Fox Maule 1852
- John Charles Herries 1852
- Sir
Charles
Wood, bt. 1852-1855
- Robert Vernon Smith 1855-1858
- Edward
Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough 1858
- Edward
Henry Stanley, Lord Stanley 1858
