This is a list of lieutenant-governors of the North-Western Provinces. The provisional establishment of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces happened in 1836 until the title was merged with Chief Commissioner of Oudh and was renamed as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces and Chief Commissioner of Oudh in 1877.
The Government of India Act of 1833 had intended that there be four presidencies comprising India – that of Fort William in Bengal, Bombay, Madras and Agra. The new Presidency of Agra was being created from the Ceded and Conquered Provinces of the Bengal Presidency. However the presidency was never fully created. Instead a new Act of Parliament in 1835, dissolved the new presidency and established the lieutenant-governorship of North-Western Provinces within the Bengal Presidency. The lieutenant governorship was finally separated from the Bengal Presidency in 1878 and merged with the Oudh Province which had been a Chief Commissioner's Province under the direct supervision of the Indian Government till then and the office of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal was abolished.
| Name | Portrait | Took office | Left office | Appointer | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sir C. T. Metcalfe | 1 June 1836 | 1 June 1838 | The Earl of Auckland | ||
| 2 | T. C. Robertson | 4 February 1840 | 31 December 1842 | |||
| 3 | Sir G. R. Clerk | 30 June 1843 | The Lord Ellenborough | |||
| 4 | James Thomason | 10 October 1853 | ||||
| 5 | J. R. Colvin | 7 November 1853 | 9 September 1857 | The Earl of Dalhousie | ||
| 6 | Colonel H. Fraser | 30 September 1857 | 9 February 1858 | The Viscount Canning | ||
| 7 | Sir G. F. Edmonstone | 19 January 1859 | 27 February 1863 | |||
| 8 | The Hon. Edmund Drummond | 7 March 1863 | 10 March 1868 | The Earl of Elgin | ||
| 9 | Sir William Muir | 10 March 1868 | 7 April 1874 | Sir John Lawrence | ||
| 10 | Sir John Strachey | 7 April 1874 | 26 July 1876 | The Lord Northbrook | ||
| 11 | Sir G. E. W. Couper | 26 July 1876 | 15 February 1877 | The Lord Lytton |
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