Under-Secretary of State for India

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This is a list of Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State and Permanent Under-Secretaries of State at the India Office during the period of British rule between 1866 and 1948, and for Burma from 1858-1948.

Contents 1 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for India, 1858-1937 2 Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for India and Burma, 1937-1948 3 Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for India, 1858-1937 4 Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for India and Burma, 1937-1948 5 See also

[edit] Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for India, 1858-1937

Name	Entered office	Left office
Henry Baillie	1858	1859
Hon. Thomas Baring	1859	1861
The Earl de Grey	1861	1861
Hon. Thomas Baring	1861	1864
The Lord Wodehouse	1864	1864
The Lord Dufferin and Clandeboye	1864	1866
James Stansfeld	1866	1866
Sir James Fergusson, Bt	1866	1867
The Lord Clinton	1867	1868
M. E. Grant Duff	1868	1874
Lord George Hamilton	1874	1878
Hon. Edward Stanhope	1878	1880
The Marquess of Lansdowne	1880	1880
Viscount Enfield	1880	1883
John Kynaston Cross	1883	1885
The Lord Harris	1885	1886
Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, Bt	1886	1886
Stafford Howard	1886	1886
Sir John Eldon Gorst	1886	1891
Hon. George Curzon	1891	1892
George William Erskine Russell	1892	1894
The Lord Reay	1894	1895
The Earl of Onslow	1895	1900
The Earl of Hardwicke	1900	1902
Earl Percy	1902	1904
Vacant	1904	1904
The Marquess of Bath	1904	1905
John Ellis	1905	1907
Charles Hobhouse	1907	1908
Thomas Buchanan	1908	1909
The Master of Elibank	1909	1910
Hon. Edwin Samuel Montagu	1910	1914
Charles Henry Roberts	1914	1915
The Lord Islington	1915	1919
The Lord Sinha	1919	1920
The Earl of Lytton	1920	1922
The Earl Winterton	1922	1924
Robert Richards	1924	1924
The Earl Winterton	1924	1929
Drummond Shiels	1929	1929
The Earl Russell	1929	1931
The Lord Snell	1931	1931
Vacant	1931	1931
The Marquess of Lothian	1931	1932
R. A. Butler	1932	1937

[edit] Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for India and Burma, 1937-1948

Name	Entered office	Left office
Lord Stanley	1937	1938
Anthony Muirhead	1938	1939
Hon. Hugh O'Neill	1939	1940
The Duke of Devonshire	1940	1943
The Earl of Munster	1943	1944
The Earl of Listowel	1944	1945
The Earl of Scarbrough	1945	1945
Arthur Henderson	1945	1947

[edit] Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for India, 1858-1937

Name	Entered office	Left office
Sir George Russell Clerk	1858	1860
Herman Merivale	1860	1874
Sir Louis Mallet	1874	1883
Sir Arthur Godley	1883	1909
Sir Richmond Ritchie	1909	1912
Sir Thomas Holderness	1912	1920
Sir William Duke	1920	1924
Sir Arthur Hirtzel	1924	1930
Sir Findlater Stewart	1930	1937

[edit] Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for India and Burma, 1937-1948

Name	Entered office	Left office
Sir Findlater Stewart	1937	1941
Sir David Monteath	1941	1948

[edit] See also

• Secretary of State for India

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