President of the Board of Control

From British Offices and Honours

Name	Entered office	Left office	Party	Notes
The Lord Sydney from 1789, the Viscount Sydney	1784	1790	Tory
The Lord Grenville	1790	1793	Tory
Henry Dundas	1793	March 1801
The Earl of Dartmouth	March 1801	July 1802	Tory
Viscount Castlereagh	17 July 1802	11 February 1806	Tory
Thomas Grenville	11 February 1806	31 March 1807	Whig
Robert Dundas	31 March 1807	July 1809	Tory
The Earl of Harrowby	July 1809	November 1809	Tory
Robert Dundas from 1811, the Viscount Melville	November 1809	April 1812	Tory
The Earl of Buckinghamshire	April 1812	4 February 1816	Tory
George Canning	March 1816	January 1821	Tory
Charles Bathurst	January 1821	January 1822	Tory
Charles Williams Wynn	January 1822	January 1828	Tory
The Viscount Melville	January 1828	19 September 1828	Tory
The Lord Ellenborough	September 1828	22 November 1830	Tory
Charles Grant	22 November 1830	14 November 1834	Canningite/Whig
The Lord Ellenborough	15 December 1834	8 April 1835	Conservative
Sir John Cam Hobhouse	18 April 1835	30 August 1841	Whig
The Lord Ellenborough	4 September 1841	23 October 1841	Conservative
The Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey	23 October 1841	17 May 1843	Conservative
The Earl of Ripon	17 May 1843	27 June 1846	Conservative
Sir John Cam Hobhouse	8 July 1846	5 February 1852	Whig
Fox Maule	5 February 1852	21 February 1852	Whig
John Herries	28 February 1852	17 December 1852	Conservative
Sir Charles Wood	30 December 1852	3 March 1855	Whig
Robert Vernon Smith	3 March 1855	21 February 1858	Whig
The Earl of Ellenborough	6 March 1858	5 June 1858	Conservative
Lord Stanley	5 June 1858	2 August 1858	Conservative	became Secretary of State for India