List of lieutenant governors of the North-Western Provinces

This is a list of lieutenant-governors of the North-Western Provinces. The provisional establishment of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces happened in 1836 until the title was merged with Chief Commissioner of Oudh and was renamed as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces and Chief Commissioner of Oudh in 1877.

Lieutenant-Governors of the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal (1835–1878)

The Government of India Act of 1833 had intended that there be four presidencies comprising India – that of Fort William in Bengal, Bombay, Madras and Agra. The new Presidency of Agra was being created from the Ceded and Conquered Provinces of the Bengal Presidency. However the presidency was never fully created. Instead a new Act of Parliament in 1835, dissolved the new presidency and established the lieutenant-governorship of North-Western Provinces within the Bengal Presidency. The lieutenant governorship was finally separated from the Bengal Presidency in 1878 and merged with the Oudh Province which had been a Chief Commissioner's Province under the direct supervision of the Indian Government till then and the office of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal was abolished.

No.	Name	Took office	Left office	Appointer (Governor-General of India)
1	Sir C. T. Metcalfe	1 June 1836	1 June 1838	The Earl of Auckland
2	T. C. Robertson	4 February 1840	31 December 1842	The Earl of Auckland
3	Sir G. R. Clerk	30 June 1843	22 December 1843	The Lord Ellenborough
4	James Thomason	22 December 1843	10 October 1853	The Lord Ellenborough
5	J. R. Colvin	7 November 1853	9 September 1857	The Earl of Dalhousie
6	Colonel H. Fraser	30 September 1857	9 February 1858	The Viscount Canning
7	Sir G. F. Edmonstone	19 January 1859	27 February 1863	The Viscount Canning
8	The Hon. Edmund Drummond	7 March 1863	10 March 1868	The Earl of Elgin
9	Sir William Muir	10 March 1868	7 April 1874	Sir John Lawrence
10	Sir John Strachey	7 April 1874	26 July 1876	The Lord Northbrook
11	Sir G. E. W. Couper	26 July 1876	15 February 1877	The Lord Lytton

v t e Administrators of provinces in British India
Governors	Agra Presidency (1834–1836) Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1945–1947) Assam (1921–1947) Bengal Presidency (1700–1774, 1912–1947) Bihar (1936–1947) Bihar and Orissa Province (1920–1936) Bombay Presidency (1694–1947) Burma (1923–1937) Central Provinces and Berar (1920–1947) Madras Presidency (1698–1947) North-West Frontier Province (1932–1948) Orissa (1936–1947) Punjab (1921–1947) Sind (1936–1947) United Provinces of British India (1921–1937) United Provinces (1937–1947)
Lt. Governors	Bengal, Bihar and Orissa Provinces (1854–1912) Assam (1905–1912) Bihar and Orissa Province (1912–1920) Burma (1897–1923) North-Western Provinces (1836–1877) North-Western Provinces (1877–1902) Punjab (1859–1921) United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (1902–1921)
Chief Commissioners	Ajmer-Merwara (1871–1947) Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1872–1945) Assam (1874–1905, 1912–1921) Balochistan (1877–1947) Burma (1886–1897) Central Provinces (1861–1920) Coorg Province (1869–1947) Delhi (1912–1947) Lower Burma (1867–1886) North-West Frontier Province (1901–1932) Oudh (1856–1877) Oudh (1877–1902) Panth-Piploda (1942–1947) Punjab (1853–1859)
Commissioners	Assam (1828–1874) Sind (1843–1936)
Superintendents	Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1858–1872)
Office retained following Indian independence