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
Viscount Sydney by Gilbert Stuart
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Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville by Sir Thomas Lawrence
George Legge, Viscount Lewisham, later 3rd Earl of Dartmouth, 1778, by Batoni
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby was a British statesman. He served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs twice, from 1866 to 1868 and from 1874 to 1878, and also twice as Colonial Secreta
President of the Board of Control
…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. Lord Stanley took up the new post of Secretary of State for India on 2 August 1858, upon the establishment of the British Raj…
The 15th Earl of Derby, c. 1891
The Earl of Derby.
Passport for a railway engineer dated 1876 containing Lord Stanley's full title and his signature.