President of the Board of Control explained

Post:	President of the Board of Control
Insignia:	Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government).svg
Insigniacaption:	Royal Arms as used by His Majesty's Government
Department:	India Board
Member Of:	British Cabinet Privy Council
Seat:	Westminster, London
Appointer:	The British Monarch
Termlength:	No fixed term
Formation:	4 September 1784
First:	The Lord Sydney
Last:	Lord Stanley
Abolished:	2 August 1858

The President of the Board of Control was a British government official in the late 18th and early 19th centuries responsible for overseeing the British East India Company and generally serving as the chief official in London responsible for Indian affairs. The position was frequently a cabinet level one. The position was abolished in 1858 with the abolition of the East India Company. It was succeeded by the new position of Secretary of State for India.

List of presidents of the Board of Control

Portrait		Name Honorifics and constituency	Term of office		Party	Ministry
		The Right Honourable The Viscount Sydney Baron Sydney before 1789 Viscount Sydney after 1789	4 September 1784	6 March 1790		Whig	Pitt I
		The Right Honourable The Lord Grenville	6 March 1790	22 June 1793		Tory (Pittite)
		The Right Honourable Henry Dundas MP for Edinburgh	22 June 1793	25 April 1801		Tory
		The Right Honourable The Earl of Dartmouth	25 April 1801	2 July 1802		Tory	Addington
		The Right Honourable Viscount Castlereagh MP for Down before 1805 MP for Boroughbridge after 1806	2 July 1802	11 February 1806	Tory
						Pitt II
		The Right Honourable The Lord Minto	11 February 1806	15 July 1806		Whig	All the Talents
		The Right Honourable Thomas Grenville MP for Buckingham	15 July 1806	30 September 1806		Whig
		The Right Honourable George Tierney MP for Athlone	30 September 1806	6 April 1807		Whig
		The Right Honourable Robert Dundas MP for Midlothian	6 April 1807	11 July 1809		Tory	Portland II
		The Right Honourable The Earl of Harrowby	11 July 1809	November 1809	Tory
Perceval
		The Right Honourable The Viscount Melville MP for Midlothian before 1811 Viscount Melville after 1811	November 1809	4 April 1812		Tory
		The Right Honourable The Earl of Buckinghamshire	4 April 1812	4 June 1816	Tory
Liverpool
		The Right Honourable George Canning MP for Liverpool	4 June 1816	June 1821		Tory
			The Right Honourable Charles Bathurst MP for Harwich	June 1821	4 February 1822
		The Right Honourable Charles Williams-Wynn MP for Montgomeryshire	4 February 1822	4 February 1828	Tory
					Canning (Canningite - Whig)
					Goderich (Canningite - Whig)
WellingtonPeel
		The Right Honourable The Viscount Melville	4 February 1828	17 September 1828		Tory
		The Right Honourable The Lord Ellenborough	17 September 1828	1 December 1830		Tory
		The Right Honourable Charles Grant MP for Inverness-shire	1 December 1830	18 September 1834	Whig		Grey
					Melbourne I
		The Right Honourable The Lord Ellenborough	18 September 1834	23 April 1835		Conservative		Peel I
		The Right Honourable Sir John Hobhouse MP for Nottingham	23 April 1835	30 August 1841		Whig		Melbourne II
		The Right Honourable The Lord Ellenborough	4 September 1841	23 October 1841		Conservative	Peel II
		The Right Honourable The Lord FitzGerald and Vesey	23 October 1841	17 May 1843		Conservative
		The Right Honourable The Earl of Ripon	17 May 1843	30 June 1846		Conservative
		The Right Honourable Sir John Hobhouse MP for Nottingham before 1847 MP for Harwich after 1848	8 July 1846	5 February 1852		Whig	Russell
		The Right Honourable Fox Maule MP for Perth	5 February 1852	21 February 1852		Whig
		The Right Honourable John Charles Herries MP for Stamford	28 February 1852	17 December 1852		Conservative		Who? Who?
		The Right Honourable Sir Charles Wood MP for Halifax	30 December 1852	3 March 1855		Whig		Aberdeen (Peelite - Whig)
		The Right Honourable Robert Vernon Smith MP for Northampton	3 March 1855	21 February 1858		Whig		Palmerston I
		The Right Honourable The Earl of Ellenborough	6 March 1858	5 June 1858		Conservative	DerbyDisraeli II
		The Right Honourable Lord Stanley MP for King's Lynn	5 June 1858	2 August 1858		Conservative

Lord Stanley took up the new post of Secretary of State for India on 2 August 1858, upon the establishment of the British Raj.