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Secretary of State for India
Former position in British government
Former position in British government
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| post | Secretary of State for India |
| insignia | Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government, 1901-1952).svg |
| insigniacaption | Royal Arms as used by His Majesty's Government |
| department | India Office |
| member_of | British Cabinet |
| Privy Council | |
| seat | Westminster, London |
| appointer | The British Monarch |
| on advice of the Prime Minister | |
| termlength | At His Majesty's pleasure |
| constituting_instrument | Government of India Act |
| precursor | President of the Board of Control |
| formation | 2 August 1858 |
| first | Lord Stanley |
| last | William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel |
| abolished | 14 August 1947 |
| deputy | Under-Secretary of State for India |
Privy Council on advice of the Prime Minister
** His (or Her) Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India**, known for short as the India secretary or the Indian secretary, was the secretary of state with responsibility for the India Office in Whitehall that oversaw relations and administration of the India subcontinent under the British Raj. The post was created in 1858 when the East India Company's rule in Bengal ended and India, except for the Princely States, was brought India officially under the British Crown from London and the officeholder was a member of the British Cabinet.
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 His Majesty's Principal 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 in the Indian Independence Act, which created two new independent dominions, India and Pakistan. Burma soon achieved independence separately in early 1948.
Secretaries of state for India, 1858–1937
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby 2.jpg | 75px]] | Lord Stanley | |||
| MP for King's Lynn | 2 August | |||||
| 1858 | 11 June | |||||
| 1859 | ||||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:1stViscountHalifax.jpg | 75px]] | Sir Charles Wood | |||
| MP for Halifax until 1865 | ||||||
| MP for Ripon after 1865 | 18 June | |||||
| 1859 | 16 February | |||||
| 1866 | ||||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell | |||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:George Robinson 1st Marquess of Ripon.jpg | 75px]] | George Robinson, 3rd Earl de Grey | 16 February | ||
| 1866 | 26 June | |||||
| 1866 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Robert cecil.jpg | 75px]] | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne | |||
| MP for Stamford | 6 July | |||||
| 1866 | 8 March | |||||
| 1867 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh.jpg | 75px]] | Sir Stafford Northcote | |||
| MP for North Devonshire | 8 March | |||||
| 1867 | 1 December | |||||
| 1868 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | ||||||
| Benjamin Disraeli | ||||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll by George Frederic Watts.jpg | 75px]] | George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll | 9 December | ||
| 1868 | 17 February | |||||
| 1874 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Robert cecil.jpg | 75px]] | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | 21 February | ||
| 1874 | 2 April | |||||
| 1878 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:1st Earl of Cranbrook.jpg | 75px]] | Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook | |||
| 2 April | ||||||
| 1878 | 21 April | |||||
| 1880 | ||||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Picture of Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire.jpg | 75px]] | Spencer Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington | |||
| MP for North East Lancashire | 28 April | |||||
| 1880 | 16 December | |||||
| 1882 | ||||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:1st Earl of Kimberley 1897 (cropped).jpg | 75px]] | John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley | 16 December | ||
| 1882 | 9 June | |||||
| 1885 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Randolph churchill.jpg | 75px]] | Lord Randolph Churchill | |||
| MP for Paddington South | 24 June | |||||
| 1885 | 28 January | |||||
| 1886 | ||||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:1st Earl of Kimberley 1897 (cropped).jpg | 75px]] | John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley | 6 February | ||
| 1886 | 20 July | |||||
| 1886 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Portrait of Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross.jpg | 75px]] | R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross | 3 August | ||
| 1886 | 11 August | |||||
| 1892 | ||||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:1st Earl of Kimberley 1897 (cropped).jpg | 75px]] | John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley | 18 August | ||
| 1892 | 10 March | |||||
| 1894 | ||||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Henry Fowler.jpg | 75px]] | Henry Fowler | |||
| MP for Wolverhampton East | 10 March | |||||
| 1894 | 21 June | |||||
| 1895 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Lord George Hamilton.JPG | 75px]] | Lord George Hamilton | |||
| MP for Ealing | 4 July | |||||
| 1895 | 9 October | |||||
| 1903 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | ||||||
| Arthur Balfour | ||||||
| (Unionist Coalition) | ||||||
| Irish Unionist Alliance}}" | [[Image:St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton, circa 1910s.jpg | 75px]] | William St John Brodrick | |||
| MP for Guildford | 9 October | |||||
| 1903 | 4 December | |||||
| 1905 | ||||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn - Project Gutenberg eText 17976.jpg | 75px]] | John Morley | |||
| MP for Montrose Burghs until 1908 | ||||||
| Viscount Morley of Blackburn after 1908 | 10 December | |||||
| 1905 | 3 November | |||||
| 1910 | ||||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | Liberal Party (UK)}}" | H. H. Asquith | ||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Portrait of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe.jpg | 75px]] | Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Earl of Crewe | 3 November | ||
| 1910 | 7 March | |||||
| 1911 | ||||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn - Project Gutenberg eText 17976.jpg | 75px]] | John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn | 7 March | ||
| 1911 | 25 May | |||||
| 1911 | ||||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Portrait of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe.jpg | 75px]] | Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe | 25 May | ||
| 1911 | 25 May | |||||
| 1915 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Austen Chamberlain MP.jpg | 75px]] | Austen Chamberlain | |||
| MP for Birmingham West | 25 May | |||||
| 1915 | 17 July | |||||
| 1917 | ||||||
| Liberal Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Edwin Samuel Montagu.jpg | 75px]] | Edwin Montagu | |||
| MP for Chesterton until 1918 | ||||||
| MP for Cambridgeshire after 1918 | 17 July | |||||
| 1917 | 19 March | |||||
| 1922 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:William Peel.jpg | 75px]] | William Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel | 19 March | ||
| 1922 | 22 January | |||||
| 1924 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | Stanley Baldwin | |||||
| Labour Party (UK)}}" | [[File:Lord Olivier GGBain.jpg | 75px]] | Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier | 22 January | ||
| 1924 | 3 November | |||||
| 1924 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:1stEarlOfBirkenhead.jpg | 75px]] | F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead | 6 November | ||
| 1924 | 18 October | |||||
| 1928 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:William Peel.jpg | 75px]] | William Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel | 18 October | ||
| 1928 | 4 June | |||||
| 1929 | ||||||
| Labour Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:William Wedgewood-Benn.jpg | 75px]] | William Wedgwood Benn | |||
| MP for Aberdeen North | 7 June | |||||
| 1929 | 24 August | |||||
| 1931 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Sir Samuel Hoare GGBain.jpg | 75px]] | Sir Samuel Hoare | |||
| MP for Chelsea | 25 August | |||||
| 1931 | 7 June | |||||
| 1935 | ||||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Lord Zetland.jpg | 75px]] | Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland | 7 June | ||
| 1935 | 28 May | |||||
| 1937 |
Secretaries of state for India and Burma, 1937–1947
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Lord Zetland.jpg | 75px]] | Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland | 28 May | |
| 1937 | 13 May | ||||
| 1940 | |||||
| Conservative Party (UK)}}" | [[Image:Leopold Amery MP.png | 75px]] | Leo Amery | ||
| MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook | 13 May | ||||
| 1940 | 26 July | ||||
| 1945 | |||||
| Labour Party (UK)}}" | [[File:British Political Personalities 1936-1945 HU59768.jpg | 75px]] | Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence | 3 August | |
| 1945 | 17 April | ||||
| 1947 | |||||
| Labour Party (UK)}}" | The Right Honourable | ||||
| William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel | |||||
| 17 April | |||||
| 1947 | 14 August | ||||
| 1947 |
Secretaries of state for Burma, 1947–1948
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party (UK)}}" | The Right Honourable | |||
| William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel | 14 August | |||
| 1947 | 4 January | |||
| 1948 |
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