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Batman to the Viceroy of India.
- The British Raj

Batman to the Viceroy of India

My limited edition soldier depicts the Batman to the Viceroy of India c.1914

The Viceroy of India was the highest position in the Indian administration during the British Raj. It was considered one of the most powerful offices in the world.

The term viceroy derives from vice (sub-) and roy (French roi, king), indicating his role as direct representative of the monarch.

The office was created in 1858 after the Sepoy Rebellion as an expansion of the office of Governor Genereal.

The Summer capital for the Viceroy and the British Raj was Simla (Shimla) The Viceroy was abolished upon the independence of India and Pakistan.

 

Viceroys of India

Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning 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 o f Lansdowne 1888-1894
Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, 13th Earl of Kincardine 1894-1899
George Nataniel 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 1921-1929
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Baron Irwin 1926-1929
George Joachim Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen of Hawkshurst 1929-1931
Freeman FreemanThomas 1st Marquess of Willingdon of Ratton 1931- 1936
Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow 1936 –1943
Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell 1943-1947
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma 1947

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