List of chief commissioners of the North-West Frontier Province explained

Below is a list of chief commissioners of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of British India, from the creation of the office in 1901 until 1932.

Chief Commissioners of the North-West Frontier Province

9 November 1901 - 7 July 1908: Sir Harold Arthur Deane^[1]
8 July 1908 - 10 September 1919: Sir George Olof Roos-Keppel
16 November 1909 - 31 October 1910: William Rudolph Henry Merck (acting for Roos-Keppel)
28 August 1913 - 28 January 1915: Sir John Stuart Donald (acting for Roos-Keppel)
10 September 1919 - 8 March 1921: Sir Hamilton Grant
8 March 1921 - 1 July 1923: Sir John Loader Maffey
1 July 2023 - 10 May 1930: Horatio Norman Bolton (acting to Dec 1924)
3 December 1925 - 1 August 1926: William John Keen (acting for Bolton)
10 May 1930 - 9 September 1931: Sir Steuart Edmund Pears
10 September 1931 - 18 April 1932: Sir Ralph Griffith (became the first Governor of the province in 1932)^[2]

https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V19_194.gif Administration, North-West Frontier Province - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 19, p. 188.
http://rulers.org/indprov.html Provinces of British India