Under-Secretary of State for India

Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates 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)

Portrait	Name	Term of office
File:No image.svg	Henry Baillie	1858	1859
File:1stEarlOfNorthbrooke.jpg	Thomas Baring	1859	1861
File:George Robinson 1st Marquess of Ripon.jpg	George Robinson, 3rd Earl de Grey	1861	1861
File:1stEarlOfNorthbrooke.jpg	Thomas Baring	1861	1864
File:1st Earl of Kimberley 1868.jpg	John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse	1864	1864
File:Lord Dufferin.jpg	Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Baron Dufferin and Clandeboye	1864	1866
File:James Stansfeld.JPG	James Stansfeld	1866	1866
File:Sir James Fergusson.jpg	Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet	1866	1867
File:CharlesHenryRolle Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis (1834–1904) 20thBaronClinton LarkbeareHouse Exeter.jpg	Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton	1867	1868
File:Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff.jpg	M. E. Grant Duff	1868	1874
File:Lord George Hamilton.JPG	Lord George Hamilton	1874	1878
File:Edward Stanhope.jpg	Edward Stanhope	1878	1880
File:Marquess of Lansdowne.jpg	Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne	1880	1880
File:Viscount Enfield Vanity Fair 14 September 1872.jpg	George Byng, Viscount Enfield	1880	1883
File:J-k-cross-1880.jpg	John Kynaston Cross	1883	1885
File:George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris, GCSI, GCIE (1851–1932) (cropped).jpg	George Harris, 4th Baron Harris	1885	1886
File:Ughtred James Kay-Shuttleworth Vanity Fair 18 August 1904.jpg	Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 2nd Baronet	1886	1886
File:No image.svg	Stafford Howard	1886	1886
File:John Eldon Gorst.jpg	Sir John Eldon Gorst	1886	1891
File:George Curzon2.jpg	George Curzon	1891	1892
File:Picture of George W. E. Russell.jpg	George W. E. Russell	1892	1894
File:Donald James Mackay Lord Reay.jpg	Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay	1894	1895
File:4thEarlOfOnslow.jpg	William Onslow	1895	1900
File:6th Earl of Hardwicke.png	Albert Yorke, 6th Earl of Hardwicke	1900	1902
File:Henry Percy, Earl Percy Vanity Fair 2 September 1897.jpg	Henry Percy, Earl Percy	1902	1904
File:No image.svg	Vacant	1904	1904
File:Marquess of Bath Vanity Fair 1896-04-23.jpg	Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath	1904	1905
File:John Ellis (Rushcliffe).jpg	John Ellis	1905	1907
File:Charles Hobhouse.jpg	Charles Hobhouse	1907	1908
File:Thomas Buchanan.jpg	Thomas Buchanan	1908	1909
File:Lord Murray of Elibank - Bain Collection.jpg	Alexander Murray, Master of Elibank	1909	1910
File:Montagu cropped.jpg	Edwin Samuel Montagu	1910	1914
File:1910 Charles Roberts MP.jpg	Charles Henry Roberts	1914	1915
File:Lord Islington.JPG	John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington	1915	1919
File:Lord Sina.jpg	Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha	1919	1920
File:2ndEarlOfLytton.jpg	Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton	1920	1922
File:Winterton6.JPG	Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton	1922	1924
File:No image.svg	Robert Richards	1924	1924
File:Winterton6.JPG	Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton	1924	1929
	Drummond Shiels	1929	1929
	Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell	1929	1931
File:Harry Snell.JPG	Harry Snell, 1st Baron Snell	1931	1931
File:No image.svg	Vacant	1931	1931
	Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian	1931	1932
File:RA Butler cropped.png	Rab Butler	1932	1937

India and Burma (1937–1948)

Portrait		Name	Term of office		Political party
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Edward Stanley, Baron Stanley MP for Fylde	1937	1938	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:No image.svg	Anthony Muirhead MP for Wells	1938	1939†	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:No image.svg	Hugh O'Neill MP for Antrim	1939	1940	Ulster Unionist
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire	1940	1943	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	File:No image.svg	Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster	1943	1944	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel	1944	1945	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough	1945	1945	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Arthur Henderson MP for Kingswinford	1945	1947	Labour

List of permanent under-secretaries of state

India (1858–1937)

Portrait	Name	Term of office
File:No image.svg	Sir George Russell Clerk	1858	1860
File:No image.svg	Herman Merivale	1860	1874
File:No image.svg	Sir Louis Mallet	1874	1883
File:No image.svg	Sir Arthur Godley	1883	1909
File:No image.svg	Sir Richmond Ritchie	1909	1912
File:No image.svg	Sir Thomas Holderness	1912	1920
File:No image.svg	Sir William Duke	1920	1924
File:No image.svg	Sir Arthur Hirtzel	1924	1930
File:No image.svg	Sir Findlater Stewart	1930	1937

India and Burma (1937–1948)

Portrait	Name Honorifics	Term of office
File:No image.svg	Sir Findlater Stewart	1937	1941
File:Sir David Taylor Monteath.jpg	Sir David Monteath	1941	1948

See also

• Secretary of State for India

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