A History of Assam c28: Appendix E

A History of Assam c28

Language: English

c28.s1 Chief Commissioners of Assam — 1 part
c28.s2 Lieutenant-Governors of Eastern Bengal and Assam — 3 parts
c28.s3 Governors of Assam — 3 parts

Appendix E

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LIST OF CHIEF COMMISSIONERS AND OTHER HEADS OF PROVINCE.

Chief Commissioners of Assam

| Colonel R. H. Keatinge, v.c., c.s.i. | .. | 1874 to 1878 |
| Sir S. C. Bayley, k.c.s.i. | .. | 1878 to 1881 |
| Sir C. A. Elliott, k.c.s.i. | .. | 1881 to 1885 |
| Sir W. E. Ward, k.c.s.i. | .. | 1885 to 1887 offg. |
| Sir D. Fitzpatrick, k.c.s.i. | .. | 1887 to 1889 |
| Mr. J. W. Quinton, c.s.i. | .. | 1889 to 1891 |
| Sir W. E. Ward, k.c.s.i. | .. | 1891 to 1896 |
| Sir H. J. S. Cotton, k.c.s.i. | .. | 1896 to 1902 |
| Mr. J. B. Fuller, c.s.i., c.i.e. | .. | 1902 to 1905 |

Lieutenant-Governors of Eastern Bengal and Assam

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| Sir Bampfylde Fuller, k.c.s.i., c.i.e. | .. | 1905 to 1906 |
| Sir Lancelot Hare, k.c.s.i., c.i.e. | .. | 1906 to 1911 |
| Sir Charles Bayley, k.c.s.i. | .. | 1911 to 1912 |

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Chief Commissioners of Assam.

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| Sir Archdale Earle, k.c.s.i., k.c.i.e. | .. | 1912 to 1918 |
| Sir Nicholas Beatson Bell,* k.c.s.i., k.c.i.e. | .. | 1918 to 1921 |

Governors of Assam

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| Sir William Marris, k.c.s.i., k.c.i.e. | .. | 1921 to 1923 |
| Sir John Kerr, k.c.i.e. | .. | 1923 to — |

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In addition to the above, there were several short officiating appointments, *viz.*, Sir William Ward in 1883, Brigadier-General Collett, c.b., in 1891, Sir Charles Lyall, k.c.s.i., c.i.e., in 1894, Mr. Fuller in 1900, Mr. C. W. Bolton, c.s.i., in 1903, Col. P. R. T. Gordon, c.s.i., in 1914, and Sir W. J. Reid, k.c.i.e., c.s.i., in 1925.

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∗ Was also Governor for the first two months of the new régime.