Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Hinduism
- Abbreviations
- Map of India
- Introduction
- 1 A Christian Company?
- 2 The East India Company, Britain and India 1770–1790
- 3 The 1790s: A Time of Crisis
- 4 The Pillar of Fire Moves Forward: The Advent of British Missionaries 1793–1806
- 5 The Wisdom of the Serpent and the Innocence of the Dove: The Vellore Mutiny and the Pamphlet War 1806–1808
- 6 Troubled Years 1807–1812
- 7 Battle Lines Drawn: Missions, Dissent and the Establishment
- 8 The 1813 Renewal of the Company's Charter: The Religious Public Takes on the Company
- 9 A Turbulent Frontier: The Company and Religion 1814–1828
- 10 A New Dawn? The Era of Lord William Bentinck 1828–1835
- 11 Between Scylla and Charibdis 1836–1858
- Conclusion and Epilogue: Strangers in the Land
- Appendix 1 Presidents of the Board of Control
- Appendix 2 Governors-General and Governors of Madras and Bombay
- Appendix 3 Aide Memoire to Names
- Appendix 4 ‘The Pious Clause’
- Bibliography
- Index
- WORLDS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
Appendix 1 - Presidents of the Board of Control
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Hinduism
- Abbreviations
- Map of India
- Introduction
- 1 A Christian Company?
- 2 The East India Company, Britain and India 1770–1790
- 3 The 1790s: A Time of Crisis
- 4 The Pillar of Fire Moves Forward: The Advent of British Missionaries 1793–1806
- 5 The Wisdom of the Serpent and the Innocence of the Dove: The Vellore Mutiny and the Pamphlet War 1806–1808
- 6 Troubled Years 1807–1812
- 7 Battle Lines Drawn: Missions, Dissent and the Establishment
- 8 The 1813 Renewal of the Company's Charter: The Religious Public Takes on the Company
- 9 A Turbulent Frontier: The Company and Religion 1814–1828
- 10 A New Dawn? The Era of Lord William Bentinck 1828–1835
- 11 Between Scylla and Charibdis 1836–1858
- Conclusion and Epilogue: Strangers in the Land
- Appendix 1 Presidents of the Board of Control
- Appendix 2 Governors-General and Governors of Madras and Bombay
- Appendix 3 Aide Memoire to Names
- Appendix 4 ‘The Pious Clause’
- Bibliography
- Index
- WORLDS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
Summary
5 Sep 1784 Henry Dundas (Viscount Melville, 1802)
25 Apr 1801 Viscount Lewisham (Earl of Dartmouth,
6 Jul 1802 Viscount Castlereagh (Secretary for War, 1808)
11 Feb 1806 The Earl of Minto
15 Jul 1806 Thomas Grenville
30 Sep 1806 George Tierney
4 Apr 1807 Robert Saunders Dundas (Viscount Melville, 1811)
11 Jul 1809 Earl of Harrowby
7 Nov 1809 Robert Dundas
4 Apr 1812 Earl of Buckinghamshire (Governor of Madras as Lord H obart, 1794–1798)
4 June 1816 George Canning
12 Jan 1821 Charles Bathurst
5 Feb 1822 Charles Watkins Williams Wynn
4 Feb 1828 Viscount Melville (Robert Dundas)
7 Sep 1828 Lord Ellenborough
22 Nov 1830 Charles Grant (Lord Glenelg from 1835)
15 Dec 1834 Lord Ellenborough
23 Apr 1835 Sir John Cam Hobhouse
30 Aug 1841 Lord Ellenborough
23 Oct 1841 The Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey
17 May 1843 The Earl of Ripon
8 Jul 1846 Sir John Hobhouse
5 Feb 1852 Fox Maule
28 Feb 1852 John Herries
30 Dec 1852 Sir Charles Wood
3 March 1855 Robert Smith
6 Mar 1858 The Earl of Ellenborough
5 June 1858 Lord Stanley (became Secretary of State for India, 2 August)
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012