List of Ceylonese executive councils
Executive Councils

List of Ceylonese executive councils

Section Title: Executive Councils
Table Section Text: None

Date	Monarch	Head of Government	Executive Council

1833	William IV (1833-1837) Queen Victoria (1837-1837)	Robert Wilmot-Horton	Wilmot-Horton executive council of Ceylon

1837	Queen Victoria	James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie	Stewart-Mackenzie executive council of Ceylon

1841	Colin Campbell	Campbell executive council of Ceylon

1847	Viscount Torrington	Torrington executive council of Ceylon

1850	George William Anderson	George William Anderson executive council of Ceylon

1855	Henry George Ward	Ward executive council of Ceylon

1860	Charles Justin MacCarthy	MacCarthy executive council of Ceylon

1865	Hercules Robinson	Robinson executive council of Ceylon

1872	William Henry Gregory	Gregory executive council of Ceylon

1877	James Robert Longden	Longden executive council of Ceylon

1883	Arthur Hamilton-Gordon	Hamilton-Gordon executive council of Ceylon

1890	Arthur Havelock	Havelock executive council of Ceylon

1896	Queen Victoria (1896-1901) Edward VII (1901-1903)	West Ridgeway	Ridgeway executive council of Ceylon

1903	Edward VII	Henry Arthur Blake	Blake executive council of Ceylon

1907	Edward VII (1907-1910) George V (1910-1913)	Henry Edward McCallum	McCallum executive council of Ceylon

1913	George V	Robert Chalmers	Chalmers executive council of Ceylon

1916	John Anderson	John Anderson executive council of Ceylon

1918	William Manning	Manning executive council of Ceylon

1925	Hugh Clifford	Clifford executive council of Ceylon

1928	Herbert Stanley	Stanley executive council of Ceylon

1931	Graeme Thomson	Thomson executive council of Ceylon

Board of Ministers of Ceylon (1931-1947)

1931	George V	First Board of Ministers of Ceylon

1936	Edward VIII (1936) George VI	Guy Stanley Wodeman (1940–42) Robert Drayton (1942-?)	Second Board of Ministers of Ceylon

Sentence(s)

The Wilmot-Horton executive council was first executive council of the British Ceylon.

final_sentence: The Wilmot-Horton executive council was first executive council of the British Ceylon.