- List of Governors of Bengal
From 1690, a governor represented the British East India Company in Bengal, which had been granted the right to establish a trading post by the local rulers, the nawabs of Murshidabad, who were nominal vassals of the Mughal emperor in Delhi.
*1700–1701:Charles Eyre
*1701–1705:John Bead
*1705:Edward Littleton
*1705–1710: "Ruled by a council"
*1710–1711:Anthony Weltden
*1711–1713: John Russell
*1713–1718:Robert Hedges
*1718–1723:Samuel Flake
*1723–1726: John Deane
*1726–1728:Henry Frankland
*1728: Edward Stephenson
*1728–1732: John Deane
*1732–1739: John Stackhouse
*1739–1746:Thomas Broddyll
*1746–1748: John Forster
*1748–1749:William Barwell
*1749–1752:Adam Dawson
*1752:William Fytche
*1752–1756:Roger Drake Under the leadership of
Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive , British troops and their local allies defeated the nawab on 23 June 1757 at theBattle of Plassey . The nawab was assassinated in Murshidabad, and the British installed their own replacement. Clive became governor.Governors, 1757-1854
*1757–1760:Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive
*1760–1764:Henry Vansittart
*1765–1766:Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive
*1767–1769: Harry Verelst
*1769–1772:John Cartier [http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/C_0052.htm]
*1772–1774:Warren Hastings
*1786–1793: Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Earl Cornwallis
*1797–1805:Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
*1805:Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
*1848–1854:James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie Under the "Charter Act 1853" the Governor General of India was relieved of his concurrent duties as Governor of Bengal and empowered to appoint a lieutenant-governor from 1854.
Lieutenant-Governors 1854-1912
*1854–1859: Frederick Halliday
*1859–1862: John Grant
*1862–1866:Sir Cecil Beadon
*1866–1871:William Grey
*1871–1874: George Campbell
*1874–1877: Sir Richard Temple
*1877–1879: Sir Ashley Eden
*1879–1882:Steuart Bayley
*1882–1885:Sir Augustus Thompson
*1885–1887:Horace Cockerell
*1887–1890:Sir Steuart Bayley
*1890–1893: Charles Elliot
*1893–1895:Anthony MacDonnell
*1895–1897: Alexander Mackenzie
*1897–1898:Sir Charles Stevens
*1898–1902:John Woodburn
*1902–1903:James Bourdillon
*1903–1906:Sir Andrew Fraser
*1906:Lancelot Hare
*1906–1908:Sir Francis Slacke
*1908–1911:Sir Edward Baker
*1911–1912: Sir William DukeIn 1912, the British reunited east and west Bengal to form a single province under a governor.
Governors 1912-1947
*1912–1917:Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael
*1917–1922:Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland asEarl of Ronaldshay
*1922–1927:Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton
*1927–1932: Sir Stanley Jackson
*1932–1937: Sir John Anderson
*1937–1939:Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne
*1939–1943:John Arthur Herbert
*1944–1946: Richard Casey
*1946–1947: Sir Frederick BurrowsReferences
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