John Adam (administrator)

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John Adam (4 May 1779 – 4 June 1825) was a United Kingdom administrator in [India], serving as the acting governor-general of the British East India Company in 1823.

References [edit]

Prior, Katherine (September 2004). "Adam, John (1779–1825), administrator in India". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 24 July 2009. The first edition of this text is available as an article on Wikisource: Cotton, James Sutherland (1885). "Adam, John". In Leslie Stephen. Dictionary of National Biography 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Government offices
Preceded by The Earl of Moira	Governor-General of India, acting 1823	Succeeded by The Lord Amherst

v t e Viceroys of India

East India Company (1773–1858)	Warren Hastings (1774–85) Sir John MacPherson (1785–86) The Earl Cornwallis (1786–93) The Lord Teignmouth (1793–98) Sir Alured Clarke (1798) The Marquess Wellesley (1798–1805) The Marquess Cornwallis (1805) Sir George Barlow, Bt (1805–07) The Earl of Minto (1807–13) The Marquess of Hastings (1813–23) John Adam (1823) The Earl Amherst (1823–28) William Butterworth Bayley (1828) Lord William Bentinck (1828–35) Sir Charles Metcalfe (1835–36) The Earl of Auckland (1836–42) The Earl of Ellenborough (1842–44) William Wilberforce Bird (1844) The Viscount Hardinge (1844–48) The Marquess of Dalhousie (1848–56) The Viscount Canning (1856–58)

British Government¹ (1858–1947)	The Earl Canning (1858–62) The Earl of Elgin (1862–63) The Lord Napier of Magdala (1863) Sir William Denison (1863–64) The Lord Lawrence (1864–69) The Earl of Mayo (1869–72) Sir John Strachey (1872) The Lord Napier (1872) The Earl of Northbrook (1872–76) The Earl of Lytton (1876–80) Marquess of Ripon (1880–84) The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1884–88) The Marquess of Lansdowne (1888–94) The Earl of Elgin (1894–99) The Lord Curzon of Kedleston (1899–1905) The Earl of Minto (1905–10) The Lord Hardinge of Penshurst (1910–16) The Lord Chelmsford (1916–21) The Earl of Reading (1921–26) The Lord Irwin (1926–31) The Earl of Willingdon (1931–36) The Marquess of Linlithgow (1936–43) The Viscount Wavell (1943–47) The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma (1947)

Governors General after Indian independence²	The Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1947–48) Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (1948–50)

Governors General after Pakistani independence³	Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1947–48) Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin (1948–51) Ghulam Muhammad (1951–55) Iskander Mirza (1955–56)

¹ Following the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny. ² As representatives of George VI in his rôle as King of India (1947–50). ³ As representatives of George VI and then Elizabeth II in their rôles as King and Queen of Pakistan, respectively.

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