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The seat of the chairman of the court of directors of the East India Company, and subsequently that of the Secretary of State for India
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Secretary of State for India from 1905 to 1910 and again briefly, as acting Secretary, in 1911

The Secretary of State for India, or India Secretary, was the British Cabinet minister and the political head of the India Office responsible for the governance of Aden, British India and Burma. The post was created in 1858 when the East India Company's rule in Bengal ended and British India was brought under the direct administration of the government in London, beginning the official colonial period under the British Empire.

In 1937, the India Office was reorganised which separated Burma and Aden under a new Burma Office, but the same Secretary of State headed both Departments and a new title was established as the Secretary of State for India and Burma. The India Office and its Secretary of State were abolished in August 1947, when the United Kingdom granted independence to British India resulting in the creation of two new independent dominions, the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. Myanmar (Burma) soon achieved independence separately in early 1948.

Secretaries of State for India, 1858–1937

Prior to the establishment of the British Empire on 2 August 1858, Lord Stanley had served as President of the Board of Control.

Name Portrait Term of office Political party Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Stanley
(subsequently 15th Earl of Derby)		 2 August 1858 11 June 1859 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The 14th Earl of Derby
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Charles Wood, Bt 18 June 1859 16 February 1866[1] Liberal rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Palmerston

The Earl Russell

style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Earl de Grey 16 February 1866 26 June 1866 Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Cranborne
(subsequently Marquess of Salisbury)		 6 July 1866 8 March 1867 Conservative rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |

The 14th Earl of Derby

Benjamin Disraeli

style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Stafford Northcote, Bt
(subsequently Earl of Iddesleigh)		 8 March 1867 1 December 1868 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Duke of Argyll 9 December 1868 17 February 1874 Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Marquess of Salisbury 21 February 1874 2 April 1878 Conservative rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Benjamin Disraeli
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Viscount Cranbrook 2 April 1878 21 April 1880 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Marquess of Hartington 28 April 1880 16 December 1882 Liberal rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Earl of Kimberley 16 December 1882 9 June 1885 Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Randolph Churchill 24 June 1885 28 January 1886 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Marquess of Salisbury
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Earl of Kimberley 6 February 1886 20 July 1886 Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir R. A. Cross
(Viscount Cross from 19 August 1886)		 3 August 1886 11 August 1892 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Marquess of Salisbury
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Earl of Kimberley 18 August 1892 10 March 1894 Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Henry Fowler 10 March 1894 21 June 1895 Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Earl of Rosebery
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord George Hamilton 4 July 1895 9 October 1903[2] Conservative rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Marquess of Salisbury
(Unionist Coalition)

Arthur Balfour
(Unionist Coalition)

style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | St John Brodrick 9 October 1903 4 December 1905 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Morley
(Viscount Morley of Blackburn from 1908)		 10 December 1905 3 November 1910 Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | H. H. Asquith
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Earl of Crewe 3 November 1910 7 March 1911 Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Viscount Morley of Blackburn 7 March 1911 25 May 1911 Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Earl of Crewe
(Marquess of Crewe from July 1911)		 25 May 1911 25 May 1915 Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Austen Chamberlain 25 May 1915 17 July 1917[3] Conservative rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | H. H. Asquith
(Coalition)

David Lloyd George
(Coalition)

style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Edwin Samuel Montagu 17 July 1917 19 March 1922 Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Viscount Peel 19 March 1922 22 January 1924 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Bonar Law

Stanley Baldwin

style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Lord Olivier 22 January 1924 3 November 1924 Labour style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Ramsay MacDonald
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Earl of Birkenhead 6 November 1924 18 October 1928 Conservative rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Stanley Baldwin
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Viscount Peel 18 October 1928 4 June 1929 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Wedgwood Benn 7 June 1929 24 August 1931 Labour style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Ramsay MacDonald
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Samuel Hoare 25 August 1931 7 June 1935 Conservative style="background-color: Template:National Labour Organisation/meta/color" | Ramsay MacDonald
(1st & 2nd National Min.)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Marquess of Zetland 7 June 1935 28 May 1937 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Stanley Baldwin
(3rd National Min.)

Secretaries of State for India and Burma, 1937–1947

Name Portrait Term of office Political party Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Marquess of Zetland 28 May 1937 13 May 1940 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Neville Chamberlain
(4th National Min.;
War Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Leo Amery File:Leo Amery 1917.jpg 13 May 1940 26 July 1945 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Winston Churchill
(War Coalition; Caretaker Min.)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Lord Pethick-Lawrence 3 August 1945 17 April 1947 Labour rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Clement Attlee
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Earl of Listowel 17 April 1947 14 August 1947 Labour

Secretaries of State for Burma, 1947–1948

Name Portrait Term of office Political party Prime Minister
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | The Earl of Listowel 14 August 1947 4 January 1948 Labour style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Clement Attlee

See also


History of English and British government departments with responsibility for foreign affairs and those with responsibility for the colonies, dominions and the Commonwealth
Northern Department
1660–1782
Secretaries — Undersecretaries 		Southern Department
1660–1768
Secretaries — Undersecretaries 		—
Southern Department
1768–1782
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
1782: diplomatic responsibilities transferred to new Foreign Office 		Colonial Office
1768–1782
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
Foreign Office
1782–1968
Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries 		Home Office
1782–1794
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
War Office
1794–1801
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
War and Colonial Office
1801–1854
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
Colonial Office
1854–1925
Secretaries — Undersecretaries 		India Office
1858–1937
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
Colonial Office
1925–1966
Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries 		Dominions Office
1925–1947
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
India Office and Burma Office
1937–1947
Secretaries — Undersecretaries
Commonwealth Relations Office
1947–1966
Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries
Commonwealth Office
1966–1968
Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
1968–2020
Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Since 2020
Secretaries — Ministers — Undersecretaries

Notes

  1. ^ Resigned after being injured in a hunting accident.
  2. ^ Resigned.
  3. ^ Resigned.
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