President of the Board of Control

Template:Short description Template:Infobox official post The President of the Board of Control was a British government official in the late 18th and early 19th centuries responsible for overseeing the British East India Company and generally serving as the chief official in London responsible for Indian affairs. The position was frequently a cabinet level one. The position was abolished in 1858 with the abolition of the East India Company. It was succeeded by the new position of Secretary of State for India.

List of presidents of the Board of Control

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Portrait		Name Honorifics and constituency	Term of office		Party	Ministry
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Viscount Sydney by Gilbert Stuart.jpg	Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney before 1789 Viscount Sydney after 1789	4 September 1784	6 March 1790	Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig	rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Tories | Pitt I
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:1st Baron Grenville-cropped.jpg	William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville	6 March 1790	22 June 1793	Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory (Pittite)
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville by Sir Thomas Lawrence.jpg	Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville MP for Edinburgh	22 June 1793	25 April 1801	Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:George Legge, Viscount Lewisham, later 3rd Earl of Dartmouth, 1778, by Batoni.jpg	George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth	25 April 1801	2 July 1802	Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory	rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Tories | Addington
style="background-color: Template:Party color; border:none" |Template:Zwj	File:Lord Castlereagh Marquess of Londonderry.jpg	Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh MP for Down before 1805 MP for Boroughbridge after 1806	2 July 1802	11 February 1806	rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory
style="background-color: Template:Party color; border:none" |					Template:Party shading/Tories | Pitt II
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Gilbert Eliot, 1st Earl of Minto by James Atkinson.jpg	Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto	11 February 1806	15 July 1806	Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig	rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | All the Talents Template:Small
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Thomas Grenville (1755-1846).jpg	Thomas Grenville MP for Buckingham	15 July 1806	30 September 1806	Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:George Tierney by William Nutter, after Lemuel Francis Abbott.jpg	George Tierney MP for Athlone	30 September 1806	6 April 1807	Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville.jpg	Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville MP for Midlothian	6 April 1807	11 July 1809	Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory	rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Tories | Portland II
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:1stEarlOfHarrowby.jpg	Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby	11 July 1809	November 1809	rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory
rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Tories | Perceval
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville.jpg	Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville MP for Midlothian before 1811 Viscount Melville after 1811	November 1809	4 April 1812	Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:4thEarlOfBuckinghamshire.jpg	Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire	4 April 1812	4 June 1816	rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory
rowspan=4 Template:Party shading/Tories | Liverpool
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:George Canning by Richard Evans - detail.jpg	George Canning MP for Liverpool	4 June 1816	June 1821	Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory
Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |	File:No image.svg	Charles Bathurst MP for Harwich	June 1821	4 February 1822
rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn.JPG	Charles Williams-Wynn (1775–1850) MP for Montgomeryshire	4 February 1822	4 February 1828	rowspan=4 Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory
Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Canning (Canningite–Whig)
Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Goderich (Canningite–Whig)
rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Tories | [[WellingtonTemplate:NdashPeel ministry|WellingtonTemplate:NdashPeel]]
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville.jpg	Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville	4 February 1828	17 September 1828	Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:1stEarlOfEllenborough.jpg	Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough	17 September 1828	1 December 1830	Template:Party shading/Tories | Tory
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Lord-glenelg.jpg	Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg MP for Inverness-shire	1 December 1830	18 September 1834	rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig	Template:Party shading/Whigs | Grey
Template:Party shading/Whigs | Melbourne I
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:1stEarlOfEllenborough.jpg	Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough	18 September 1834	23 April 1835	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Peel I
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:John Cam Hobhouse.jpg	John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton MP for Nottingham	23 April 1835	30 August 1841	Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig	Template:Party shading/Whigs | Melbourne II
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:1stEarlOfEllenborough.jpg	Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough	4 September 1841	23 October 1841	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative	rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Peel II
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Vesy fitz small.jpg	William Vesey-FitzGerald, 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey	23 October 1841	17 May 1843	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon by Sir Thomas Lawrence.jpg	F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich	17 May 1843	30 June 1846	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:John Cam Hobhouse.jpg	John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton MP for Nottingham before 1847 MP for Harwich after 1848	8 July 1846	5 February 1852	Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig	rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Whigs | Russell
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:11th Earl of Dalhousie.jpg	Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie MP for Perth	5 February 1852	21 February 1852	Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:John Charles Herries.jpg	John Charles Herries MP for Stamford	28 February 1852	17 December 1852	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Who? Who?
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:1stViscountHalifax.jpg	Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax MP for Halifax	30 December 1852	3 March 1855	Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig	Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Aberdeen (Peelite–Whig)
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Robert Vernon Smith.JPG	Robert Vernon MP for Northampton	3 March 1855	21 February 1858	Template:Party shading/Whigs | Whig	Template:Party shading/Whigs | Palmerston I
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:1stEarlOfEllenborough.jpg	Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough	6 March 1858	5 June 1858	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative	rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | [[Second DerbyTemplate:NdashDisraeli ministry|DerbyTemplate:NdashDisraeli II]]
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby 2.jpg	Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby MP for King's Lynn	5 June 1858	2 August 1858	Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative

Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby took up the new post of Secretary of State for India on 2 August 1858, upon the establishment of the British Raj.