List of Chief Commissioners of Oudh - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of Chief Commissioners of Oudh, also known as resident. The establishment of the title of Chief Commissioner of Oudh was created after deposing Nawab of Awadh

Nawab of Awadh

The Nawab of Awadh is the title of rulers who governed the state of Awadh in India in the 18th and 19th century. The Nawabs of Awadh originated form Persia-Establishment:...

Wajid Ali Shah

Wajid Ali Shah was the fifth King of Oudh, holding the position from 13 February 1847 to 7 February 1856....

and incorporating Oudh into British India by Company

Company rule in India

Company rule in India refers to the rule or dominion of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent...

in 1856 until it was merged with the title of Lieutenant Governor of the North-Western Provinces and renamed as Lieutenant Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh in 1877.

Chief Commissioners of Oudh (1856 – 1877)

In 1856, the office was created.

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Remarks
1	Major General Sir James Outram Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet Lieutenant General Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet GCB KSI was an English general who fought in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and is considered a British hero.-Early life:...	1 February 1856	8 May 1856	-
2	Colville Coverly Jackson	8 May 1856	21 March 1857	Officiating
3	Major General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence Henry Montgomery Lawrence Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence was a British soldier and statesman in India, who died defending Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny.-Career:Lawrence was the brother of John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence and was born at Matara, Ceylon...	21 March 1857	5 July 1857	Killed at Lucknow, July, 1857
4	Major John Sherbroke Banks	5 July 1857	11 September 1857	Killed at Lucknow, July, 1857
5	Lieut General Sir James Outram Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet Lieutenant General Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet GCB KSI was an English general who fought in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and is considered a British hero.-Early life:...	11 September 1857	3 April 1858	-
6	Robert Montgomery	3 April 1858	15 February 1859	-
7	Charles John Wingfield Charles John Wingfield Sir Charles John Wingfield KCSI, CB, MP , who had a distinguished career with the Bengal Civil Service, was later elected as the first Member of Parliament for the United Kingdom's Parliament constituency of Gravesend....	15 February 1859	20 April 1860	-
8	Lieutenant Colonel Lousada Barrow	20 April 1860	4 April 1861	Officiating
9	George Udny Yule Udny Yule George Udny Yule FRS , usually known as Udny Yule, was a British statistician, born at Beech Hill, a house in Morham near Haddington, Scotland and died in Cambridge, England. His father, also George Udny Yule, and a nephew, were knighted. His uncle was the noted orientalist Sir Henry Yule...	4 April 1861	26 August 1865	Officiating
10	Richard Hutton Davies Richard Hutton Davies Major General Richard Hutton Davies CB was an officer of the New Zealand Army during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the first New Zealander to command an independent force overseas and one of the most senior New Zealand officers during the First World War.Born in London, he...	26 August 1865	17 March 1866	Officiating
11	Sir John Strachey	17 March 1866	24 May 1868	-
12	R. H. Davies	24 May 1868	18 January 1871	Officiating, Confirmed 9 March 1868
13	Major General Lousada Barrow	18 January 1871	20 April 1871	-
14	Sir George Couper	20 April 1871	15 March 1875	Officiating, Confirmed 9 December 1873
15	John Forbes David Inglis	15 March 1875	15 February 1877	Officiating, until 15 November 1875 and from 26 July 1876 to 15 February 1877

Chief Commissioners of Oudh (1856 – 1877)

See also