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.
List of Presidents of the Board of Control
Whig Tory Conservative | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Name Honorifics & Constituency | Term of office | Party | Ministry | |||
 | The Right Honourable The Viscount Sydney PC Baron Sydney before 1789 Viscount Sydney after 1789 | 4 September 1784 | 6 March 1790 | Whig | Pitt I | ||
 | The Right Honourable The Lord Grenville PC | 6 March 1790 | 22 June 1793 | Tory (Pittite) | |||
 | The Right Honourable Henry Dundas MP for Edinburgh | 22 June 1793 | 25 April 1801 | Tory | |||
 | The Right Honourable The Earl of Dartmouth PC | 25 April 1801 | 2 July 1802 | Tory | Addington | ||
| |  | The Right Honourable Viscount Castlereagh MP for Down before 1805 MP for Boroughbridge after 1806 | 2 July 1802 | 11 February 1806 | Tory | ||
Pitt II | |||||||
 | The Right Honourable The Lord Minto PC | 11 February 1806 | 15 July 1806 | Whig | All the Talents (Whig–Tory) | ||
 | The Right Honourable Thomas Grenville MP for Buckingham | 15 July 1806 | 30 September 1806 | Whig | |||
 | The Right Honourable George Tierney MP for Athlone | 30 September 1806 | 6 April 1807 | Whig | |||
 | The Right Honourable Robert Dundas MP for Midlothian | 6 April 1807 | 11 July 1809 | Tory | Portland II | ||
 | The Right Honourable The Earl of Harrowby PC | 11 July 1809 | November 1809 | Tory | |||
Perceval | |||||||
| The Right Honourable The Viscount Melville MP for Midlothian before 1811 Viscount Melville after 1811 | November 1809 | 4 April 1812 | Tory | |||
 | The Right Honourable The Earl of Buckinghamshire PC | 4 April 1812 | 4 June 1816 | Tory | |||
Liverpool | |||||||
 | The Right Honourable George Canning MP for Liverpool | 4 June 1816 | June 1821 | Tory | |||
 | The Right Honourable Charles Bathurst MP for Harwich | June 1821 | 4 February 1822 | ||||
 | The Right Honourable Charles Williams-Wynn MP for Montgomeryshire | 4 February 1822 | 4 February 1828 | Tory | |||
Canning (Canningite–Whig) | |||||||
Goderich (Canningite–Whig) | |||||||
Wellington–Peel | |||||||
| The Right Honourable The Viscount Melville KT PC FRS | 4 February 1828 | 17 September 1828 | Tory | |||
 | The Right Honourable The Lord Ellenborough PC | 17 September 1828 | 1 December 1830 | Tory | |||
 | The Right Honourable Charles Grant MP for Inverness-shire | 1 December 1830 | 18 September 1834 | Whig | Grey | ||
Melbourne I | |||||||
| The Right Honourable The Lord Ellenborough PC | 18 September 1834 | 23 April 1835 | Conservative | Peel I | ||
 | The Right Honourable Sir John Hobhouse Bt MP for Nottingham | 23 April 1835 | 30 August 1841 | Whig | Melbourne II | ||
| The Right Honourable The Lord Ellenborough PC | 4 September 1841 | 23 October 1841 | Conservative | Peel II | ||
| The Right Honourable The Lord FitzGerald and Vesey PC | 23 October 1841 | 17 May 1843 | Conservative | |||
 | The Right Honourable The Earl of Ripon PC | 17 May 1843 | 30 June 1846 | Conservative | |||
| The Right Honourable Sir John Hobhouse Bt MP for Nottingham before 1847 MP for Harwich after 1848 | 8 July 1846 | 5 February 1852 | Whig | Russell | ||
 | The Right Honourable Fox Maule MP for Perth | 23 February 1852 | 21 February 1852 | Whig | |||
 | The Right Honourable John Charles Herries MP for Stamford | 28 February 1852 | 17 December 1852 | Conservative | Who? Who? | ||
 | The Right Honourable Sir Charles Wood Bt MP for Halifax | 30 December 1852 | 3 March 1855 | Whig | Aberdeen (Peelite–Whig) | ||
 | The Right Honourable Robert Vernon Smith MP for Northampton | 3 March 1855 | 21 February 1858 | Whig | Palmerston I | ||
| The Right Honourable The Earl of Ellenborough GCB PC | 6 March 1858 | 5 June 1858 | Conservative | Derby–Disraeli II | ||
 | The Right Honourable Lord Stanley MP for King's Lynn | 5 June 1858 | 2 August 1858 | Conservative | |||
Lord Stanley took up the new post of Secretary of State for India on 2 August 1858, upon the establishment of the British Raj.
References
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