Viceroys of British India

Name	Period
Lord Canning	1858–1862
8th Earl of Elgin I	1862–1863
Sir Robert Napier	1863
Sir William T. Denison	1863–1864
Earl of Mayo	1864–1869
Lord Rippon	1880–1884
Lord Lansdowne	1888–1894
Lord Elgin II	1894–1899
Lord Curzon	1899–1905
Lord Minto II	1905–1910
Lord Hardinge	1910–1916
Lord Chelmsford	1916–1921
Lord Reading	1921–1926
Lord Irwin	1926–1931
Lord Willingdon	1931–1936
Lord Linlithgow	1936–1943
Lord Wavell	1943–1947
Lord Louis Mountbatten	1947 (March 13 – August 14)