Military Secretary to the India Office explained

The Military Secretary to the India Office was responsible for the recruitment of British and other European nationals to the officer ranks of the Indian Army.^[1]

Military Secretaries to the India Office

The Military Secretaries were as follows:^[2]

• Major James Salmond 1809 - 1837
• Philip Melvill 1837 - 1858
• Colonel William Baker, 1859 - 1861
• Major-General Sir Thomas Pears, 1861 - 1877
• Colonel Allen Johnson, 1877 - 1889
• Major-General Sir Oliver Newmarch, 1889 - 1899
• Major-General Sir Edward Stedman, 1899 - 1907
• Lieutenant-General Sir O'Moore Creagh, 1907 - 1909
• Lieutenant-General Sir Beauchamp Duff, 1909 - 1914
• General Sir Edmund Barrow, 1914 - 1917
• Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Cox, 1917 - 1920
• Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Cobbe, 1920 - 1926
• Field Marshal Sir Claud Jacob, 1926 - 1930
• General Sir Alexander Cobbe, 1930 - 1931
• Major-General Sydney Muspratt, 1931 - 1933
• Lieutenant-General Sir John Coleridge, 1933 - 1936
• Major-General Sir Roger Wilson, 1936 - 1937
• Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney Muspratt, 1937 - 1941
• Major-General Rob Lockhart, 1941 - 1943
• Lieutenant-General George Molesworth, 1943 - 1944
• General Sir Mosley Mayne, 1945 - 1947
• Lieutenant-General Sir Geoffry Scoones, 1947

Notes and References

1. http://www.militaryarchiveresearch.com/IndianArmy.htm Military Archive Research, Stuart Blank
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=YSK8AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22General+Sir+John+Coleridge%22&pg=PA265 The military in British India: the development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947 By T. A. Heathcote, Page265