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Under-Secretary of State for India

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 1858 and 1937 for India (and Burma by extension), and for India and Burma from 1937 to 1948.

The parliamentary under-secretary of state was a ministerial position and the permanent under-secretary of state was a civil service position.

List of parliamentary under-secretaries of state

India (1858–1937)

PortraitNameTerm of office
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Henry Baillie1858
[[File:1stEarlOfNorthbrooke.jpg75px]]Thomas Baring1859
[[File:George Robinson 1st Marquess of Ripon.jpg75px]]George Robinson, 3rd Earl de Grey1861
[[File:1stEarlOfNorthbrooke.jpg75px]]Thomas Baring1861
[[File:1st Earl of Kimberley 1868.jpg75px]]John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse1864
[[File:Lord Dufferin.jpg75px]]Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin and Clandeboye1864
[[File:James Stansfeld.JPG75px]]James Stansfeld1866
[[File:Sir James Fergusson.jpg75px]]Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet1866
[[File:CharlesHenryRolle Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis (1834–1904) 20thBaronClinton LarkbeareHouse Exeter.jpg75px]]Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton1867
[[File:Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff.jpg75px]]M. E. Grant Duff1868
[[File:Lord George Hamilton.JPG75px]]Lord George Hamilton1874
[[File:Edward Stanhope.jpg75px]]Edward Stanhope1878
[[File:Marquess of Lansdowne.jpg75px]]Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne1880
[[File:Viscount Enfield Vanity Fair 14 September 1872.jpg75px]]George Byng, Viscount Enfield1880
[[File:J-k-cross-1880.jpg75px]]John Kynaston Cross1883
[[File:George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris, GCSI, GCIE (1851–1932) (cropped).jpg75px]]George Harris, 4th Baron Harris1885
[[File:Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth Vanity Fair 18 August 1904.jpg75px]]Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 2nd Baronet1886
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Stafford Howard1886
[[File:John Eldon Gorst.jpg75px]]Sir John Eldon Gorst1886
[[File:George Curzon2.jpg75px]]George Curzon1891
[[File:Picture of George W. E. Russell.jpg75px]]George W. E. Russell1892
[[File:Donald James Mackay Lord Reay.jpg75px]]Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay1894
[[File:4thEarlOfOnslow.jpg75px]]William Onslow1895
[[File:6th Earl of Hardwicke.png75px]]Albert Yorke, 6th Earl of Hardwicke1900
[[File:Henry Percy, Earl Percy Vanity Fair 2 September 1897.jpg75px]]Henry Percy, Earl Percy1902
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Vacant1904
[[File:Marquess of Bath Vanity Fair 1896-04-23.jpg75px]]Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath1904
[[File:John Ellis (Rushcliffe).jpg75px]]John Ellis1905
[[File:Charles Hobhouse.jpg75px]]Charles Hobhouse1907
[[File:Thomas Buchanan.jpg75px]]Thomas Buchanan1908
[[File:Lord Murray of Elibank - Bain Collection.jpg75px]]Alexander Murray, Master of Elibank1909
[[File:Montagu cropped.jpg75px]]Edwin Samuel Montagu1910
[[File:1910 Charles Roberts MP.jpg75px]]Charles Henry Roberts1914
[[File:Lord Islington.JPG75px]]John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington1915
[[File: Lord Sina.jpg75px]]Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha1919
[[File:2ndEarlOfLytton.jpg75px]]Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton1920
[[File:Winterton6.JPG75px]]Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton1922
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Robert Richards1924
[[File:Winterton6.JPG75px]]Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton1924
Drummond Shiels1929
Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell1929
[[File:Harry Snell.JPG75px]]Harry Snell, 1st Baron Snell1931
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Vacant1931
Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian1931
[[File:RA Butler cropped.png75px]]Rab Butler1932

India and Burma (1937–1948)

PortraitNameTerm of officePolitical party
Conservative Party (UK)}}"Edward Stanley, Baron Stanley
MP for Fylde1937
Conservative Party (UK)}}"[[File:No image.svg75px]]Anthony Muirhead
MP for Wells1938
Ulster Unionist Party}}"[[File:No image.svg75px]]Hugh O'Neill
MP for Antrim1939
Conservative Party (UK)}}"Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire1940
Conservative Party (UK)}}"[[File:No image.svg75px]]Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster1943
Labour Party (UK)}}"William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel1944
Conservative Party (UK)}}"Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough1945
Labour Party (UK)}}"Arthur Henderson
MP for Kingswinford1945

List of permanent under-secretaries of state

India (1858–1937)

PortraitNameTerm of office
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Sir George Russell Clerk1858
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Herman Merivale1860
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Sir Louis Mallet1874
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Sir Arthur Godley1883
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Sir Richmond Ritchie1909
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Sir Thomas Holderness1912
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Sir William Duke1920
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Sir Arthur Hirtzel1924
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Sir Findlater Stewart1930

India and Burma (1937–1948)

PortraitName
HonorificsTerm of office
[[File:No image.svg75px]]Sir Findlater Stewart1937
[[File:Sir David Taylor Monteath.jpg75px]]Sir David Monteath1941
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