Viceroy of India

The term viceroy derives from vice and royal. The Viceroy's wife was called the vicerine. The office was created in 1858,

Viceroys of India

• 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