President of the Board of Control

President of the Board of Control
File:Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government).svg Royal Arms as used by His Majesty's Government
India Board
Member of	British Cabinet Privy Council
Seat	Westminster, London
Appointer	The British Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	No fixed term
Formation	4 September 1784
First holder	The Lord Sydney
Final holder	Lord Stanley
Abolished	2 August 1858

The President of the Board of Control was a British government official in the late 18th and early 19th century 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

President of the Board of Control

WhigTemplate:Nb5  ToryTemplate:Nb5  Conservative
Portrait		Name Honorifics & Constituency	Term of office		Party	Ministry
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable The Viscount Sydney PC Baron Sydney before 1789 Viscount Sydney after 1789	4 September 1784	6 March 1790	Whig	Pitt I
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable The Lord Grenville PC	6 March 1790	22 June 1793	Tory (Pittite)
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable Henry Dundas MP for Edinburgh	22 June 1793	25 April 1801	Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable The Earl of Dartmouth PC	25 April 1801	2 July 1802	Tory	Addington
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color; border:none" |Template:Zwj		The Right Honourable Viscount Castlereagh MP for Down before 1805 MP for Boroughbridge after 1806	2 July 1802	11 February 1806	Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color; border:none" |						Pitt II
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable The Lord Minto PC	11 February 1806	15 July 1806	Whig	All the Talents (Whig–Tory)
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable Thomas Grenville MP for Buckingham	15 July 1806	30 September 1806	Whig
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable George Tierney MP for Athlone	30 September 1806	6 April 1807	Whig
style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable Robert Dundas MP for Midlothian	6 April 1807	11 July 1809	Tory	Portland II
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable The Earl of Harrowby PC	11 July 1809	November 1809	Tory
Perceval
	style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable The Viscount Melville MP for Midlothian before 1811 Viscount Melville after 1811	November 1809	4 April 1812	Tory
	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable The Earl of Buckinghamshire PC	4 April 1812	4 June 1816	Tory
Liverpool
	style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable George Canning MP for Liverpool	4 June 1816	June 1821	Tory
			The Right Honourable Charles Bathurst MP for Harwich	June 1821	4 February 1822
	rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable Charles Williams-Wynn MP for Montgomeryshire	4 February 1822	4 February 1828	Tory
Canning (Canningite–Whig)
Goderich (Canningite–Whig)
Wellington–Peel
	style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable The Viscount Melville KT PC FRS	4 February 1828	17 September 1828	Tory
	style="background-color: Template:Tories (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable The Lord Ellenborough PC	17 September 1828	1 December 1830	Tory
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable Charles Grant MP for Inverness-shire	1 December 1830	18 September 1834	Whig	Grey
Melbourne I
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable The Lord Ellenborough PC	18 September 1834	23 April 1835	Conservative	Peel I
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable Sir John Hobhouse Bt MP for Nottingham	23 April 1835	30 August 1841	Whig	Melbourne II
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable The Lord Ellenborough PC	4 September 1841	23 October 1841	Conservative	Peel II
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable The Lord FitzGerald and Vesey PC	23 October 1841	17 May 1843	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable The Earl of Ripon PC	17 May 1843	30 June 1846	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable Sir John Hobhouse Bt MP for Nottingham before 1847 MP for Harwich after 1848	8 July 1846	5 February 1852	Whig	Russell
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable Fox Maule MP for Perth	5 February 1852	21 February 1852	Whig
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable John Charles Herries MP for Stamford	28 February 1852	17 December 1852	Conservative	Who? Who?
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable Sir Charles Wood Bt MP for Halifax	30 December 1852	3 March 1855	Whig	Aberdeen (Peelite–Whig)
style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable Robert Vernon Smith MP for Northampton	3 March 1855	21 February 1858	Whig	Palmerston I
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable The Earl of Ellenborough GCB PC	6 March 1858	5 June 1858	Conservative	Derby–Disraeli II
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |		The Right Honourable Lord Stanley MP for King's Lynn	5 June 1858	2 August 1858	Conservative

Lord Stanley took up the new post of Secretary of State for India on 2 August 1858, upon the establishment of the British Raj.