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| Governors of Bombay |
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1534 First Portugese settlement 1662 The settlement became a British possesion when Charles II married Catherine of Braganza 1662, Sept 18 English arrive to take possession 1668 The East India Company leased Bombay from the crown for an annual sum of 10 pounds in gold 1858, Mar 29 the last Mughal ruler is deposed 1858, Aug 2 U.K. Act of Parliament annexes the Empire, creating British India (effective 1 Nov 1858)
The tables on this page are still being worked on.
| Sir Abraham Shipman | died, September 1664, at Angadio | |
| Humfrey Cooke | February, 1665 | died, May 21, 1667 |
| Sir Gervase Lucas, (acting) | November 5, 1666 | died, May 21, 1667 |
| Capt. Henry Gary | May 22, 1667 | died, at Surat, July 14, 1669 |
The East India Company received Bombay on September 23, 1668
| Sir George Oxeden | September 23, 1668 | President of the factory, became the first EIC Governor |
| Gerald Aungie | July 14, 1669 | died, at Surat, June 30, 1677 |
| Gen. Thomas Holt | June 30, 1677 | |
| Sir John Child, Bart. | October 27, 1681 | |
| Capt. Richard Kergwin | usurped Governorship, 1683 - 1684 | |
| Sir John Wyborne | 1686 | |
| Bartholamew Harris | February 4, 1690 | died, at Surat, May 10, 1694 |
| Daniel Annesley | May 10, 1694 | acting |
| Sir John Gayer | May 17, 1694 | |
| Sir Nicholas Waite | Nvember 1704 | |
| William Aislabie | September 1708 | |
| Stephen Strutt | October 11, 1715 | officiating |
| Charles Boone | December 26, 1716 | |
| William Phipps | January 9, 1722 | |
| Robert Cowan | January 10, 1729 | |
| John Horne | Sept, 22 1734 | |
| Stephen Law | April 7, 1739 | Acting Governor |
| John Geekie | November 15, 1742 | Acting Governor |
| William Wake | November 26, 1742 | |
| Richard Bourchier | November 17, 1750 | |
| John Holkell | 1760 | Acting Governor |
| Charles Crommelin | February 28, 1760 | |
| Thomas Hodges | January 27, 1767 | died, February 23, 1771 |
| William Hornby | February 26, 1771 | |
| Rawson Hart Boddam | January 1, 1784 | |
| Andrew Ramsay | January 9, 1788 | Acting Governor |
| Maj-Gen. Sir William Medows | September 16, 1788 | also Commander-in-Chief |
| Maj-Gen. Sir Robert Abercromby | January 21, 1790 | |
| George Dick | November 26, 1792 | Acting Governor |
| John Griffith | September 3, 1795 | Acting Governor |
| Jonathan Duncan | December 27, 1795 | died at Bombay, August 11, 1811 |
| George Brown | August 11, 1811 | Acting Governor |
| Rt. Hon. Sir Evan Nepean, Bart. | August 12, 1812 | |
| Hon. Montstuart Elphinstone | November 1, 1819 | died in Surrey, November 20, 1859 |
| Maj-Gen. Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B. | November 1, 1827 | |
| Lt-Gen. Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith, K.C.B. | December 1, 1830, 1795 | also Commander-in-Chief died, at Mahableshwar, January 15, 1831 |
| John Romer | January 17, 1831 | Acting Governor |
| Rt. Hon. the Earl of Clare | March 21, 1831 | died at Dapuri, nr Poona, July 8, 1838 |
| Sir Robert Grant, G.C.H. | March 17, 1835 | |
| James Farish | July 11, 1838 | Acting Governor |
| Major Sir James Rivett-Carnac, Bart. | May 31, 1839 | |
| Sir William Hay Macnaughten, Bart. | assassinated at Cabul, December 23, 1841, before he could take office |
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| George William Anderson | April 28, 1841 | Acting Governor |
| Lt. Gen. Sir George Arthur, Bart., K.C.H. | June 9, 1842 | |
| Lestock Robert Reid | August 6, 1846 | |
| Sir George Russell Clerk, K.C.B. | January 23, 1847 | |
| Rt. Hon. Viscount Falkland, G.C.H. (Lucius Bentinck Carey, 1803 - 1884) |
May 1, 1848 | |
| Rt. Hon. Baron Elphinstone, G.C.B., G.C.H. | December 28, 1853 | |
| Sir George Russell Clerk, K.C.B. | May 11, 1860 |
In 1862 the City reverted to the Crown
| Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere (1815 - 1884) |
April 24, 1862 | |
| Hon. Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey FitzGerald (1818 - 1885) |
March 6, 1867 | |
| Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse, K.C.B. (1811 - 1887) |
May 6, 1872 | |
| Sir Richard Temple, Bart., K.C.S.I. (1826 - 1902) |
April 30, 1877 | |
| Lionel Robert Ashburner, C.S.I. (1827 - 1907) |
March 13, 1880 | Acting Governor |
| Sir James Fergusson, Bart., K.C.M.G. (1823 - 1907) |
April 28 1880 | |
| James Braithwaite Peile, C.S.I. | March 27, 1885 | Acting Governor |
| Rt. Hon. Baron Reay, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E. (Donald James Mackay, 1839 - 1921) |
March 30, 1885 | |
| Rt. Hon. Baron Harris, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E. (George Robert Canning Harris, 1851 - 1932) |
April 12, 1890 | |
| Herbert Mills Birdwood (1837 - 1907) |
February 16, 1895 | Acting Governor |
| Rt. Hon. Baron Sandhurst, G.C.S.I., G.C.L.E. (William Mansfield, 1857 - 1933) |
February 18, 1895 | |
| Rt. Hon. Baron Northcote of Exeter, G.C.I.E., C.B. (Henry Stafford Northcote, 1846 - 1911) |
February 17, 1900 | |
| Sir James Monteath, K.C.S.I. (1847 - 1929) |
September 5, 1903 | Acting Governor |
| Rt. Hon. Baron Lamington, G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E. (Charles Wallace Cochrane Baillie, 1847 - 1929) |
December 12, 1903 | |
| John William Pitt Muir-Mackenzie, C.S.I. (1854-1916) |
July 27, 1907 | Acting Governor |
| Brevet-Col. Sir George Sydenham Clarke, G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E. (1848 - 1933) |
October 18, 1907 | Governor of Victoria, Australia, 1901 - 1903 |
| Rt. Hon. Baron Willingdon, G.C.I.E. (Sir Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1866 - 1941) |
April 4, 1913 | Governor of Madras, 1919 - 1924 Governor General of Canada, 1926 - 1931 Viceroy of India, 1931 - 1936 Created Marquess of Willingdon, 1936 |
| Sir George Ambrose Lloyd (1879 - 1941) |
December 1918 | |
| Sir Maurice Hayward (1868 - 1964) |
December 8, 1923 | Acting Governor |
| Col. Sir Leslie Orme Wilson (1876 - 1955) |
December 10, 1923 | |
| Sir Henry Staveley Lawrence (1870 - 1949) |
March 20, 1926 | Acting Governor |
| Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes (1877 - 1954) |
December 8, 1928 | |
| Rt. Hon. Baron Brabourne (Michael Herbert Rudolph Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1895 - 1939) |
April 25, 1931 | |
| Sir Robert Duncan Bell (1878 - 1953) |
May 30, 1937 | Acting Governor |
| Sir Lawrence Roger Lumley (1896 - 1969) |
September 18, 1937 | |
| Sir David John Colville | March 24, 1943 | served as the last British Governor of Bombay until August 15, 1947 |
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