This is a list of lieutenant-governors of the North-Western Provinces. The provisional establishment of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces happened in 1836 until the title was merged with Chief Commissioner of Oudh and was renamed as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces and Chief Commissioner of Oudh in 1877.
Lieutenant-governors of the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal (1835–1878)
The Government of India Act 1833 had intended that there be four presidencies comprising India – that of Fort William in Bengal, Bombay, Madras and Agra. The new Presidency of Agra was being created from the Ceded and Conquered Provinces of the Bengal Presidency. However the presidency was never fully created. Instead a new act of Parliament in 1835, dissolved the new presidency and established the lieutenant-governorship of North-Western Provinces within the Bengal Presidency. The lieutenant governorship was finally separated from the Bengal Presidency in 1878 and merged with the Oudh Province which had been a Chief Commissioner's Province under the direct supervision of the Indian Government till then and the office of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal was abolished. NamePortrait Took officeLeft officeAppointer1Sir C. T. Metcalfe1 June 18361 June 1838 The Earl of Auckland2 T. C. Robertson4 February 184031 December 18423Sir G. R. Clerk30 June 1843 The Lord Ellenborough 4 James Thomason 10 October 1853 5 J. R. Colvin 7 November 1853 9 September 1857 The Earl of Dalhousie 6 Colonel H. Fraser 30 September 1857 9 February 1858 The Viscount Canning 7 Sir G. F. Edmonstone 19 January 1859 27 February 1863 8 The Hon. Edmund Drummond 7 March 1863 10 March 1868 The Earl of Elgin 9 Sir William Muir 10 March 1868 7 April 1874 Sir John Lawrence 10 Sir John Strachey 7 April 1874 26 July 1876 The Lord Northbrook 11 Sir G. E. W. Couper 26 July 1876 15 February 1877 The Lord Lytton
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See also (1732–1857) – Nawab of Awadh (1834–1836) – Governors of Agra Presidency (1856–1877) – Chief Commissioners of Oudh (1877–1902) – Lieutenant Governors of the North-Western Provinces and Chief Commissioners of Oudh (1902–1921) – Lieutenant Governors of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (1921–1937) – Governors of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (1937–1950) – Governors of the United Provinces (1950–cont.) – Governors of Uttar Pradesh
References
Provinces of British India The India List and India Office List By India Office, Great Britain