Secretary of State for India - wikipedia Secretary of State for India Secretary of State for India Royal Arms as used by Her Majesty 's Government India Office Member of British Cabinet Privy Council Seat Westminster, London Appointer The British Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister Term length No fixed term Constituting instrument Government of India Act Precursor President of the Board of Control Formation 2 August 1858 First holder Lord Stanley Final holder William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel Abolished 14 August 1947 Deputy Under - Secretary of State for India The seat of the chairman of the court of directors of the East India Company, and subsequently that of the Secretary of State for India The 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Secretary of State for India from 1905 to 1910 and again briefly, as acting Secretary, in 1911 The Secretary of State for India or India Secretary was the British Cabinet minister and the political head of the India Office responsible for the governance of the British Raj ( India ), Aden, and Burma. The post was created in 1858 when the East India Company 's rule in Bengal ended and India except for the Princely States was brought under the direct administration of the government in London, beginning the official colonial period under the British Empire. In 1937, the India Office was reorganised which separated Burma and Aden under a new Burma Office, but the same Secretary of State headed both Departments and a new title was established as the Secretary of State for India and Burma. The India Office and its Secretary of State were abolished in August 1947, when the United Kingdom granted independence in the Indian Independence Act, which created two new independent dominions, the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. Myanmar ( Burma ) soon achieved independence separately in early 1948. Contents 1 Secretaries of State for India, 1858 -- 1937 2 Secretaries of State for India and Burma, 1937 -- 1947 3 Secretaries of State for Burma, 1947 -- 1948 4 See also 5 Notes 6 External links Secretaries of State for India, 1858 -- 1937 Prior to the establishment of the British Empire on 2 August 1858, Lord Stanley had served as President of the Board of Control. Portrait Name Term of office Political party Prime Minister The Right Honourable Lord Stanley MP for King 's Lynn 2 August 1858 11 June 1859 Conservative The 14th Earl of Derby The Right Honourable Sir Charles Wood Bt GCB PC MP for Halifax until 1865 MP for Ripon after 1865 18 June 1859 16 February 1866 Liberal Viscount Palmerston The Earl Russell The Right Honourable The Earl de Grey VD PC 16 February 1866 26 June 1866 Liberal The Right Honourable Viscount Cranborne MP for Stamford 6 July 1866 8 March 1867 Conservative The 14th Earl of Derby The Right Honourable Sir Stafford Northcote Bt CB MP for North Devonshire 8 March 1867 1 December 1868 Conservative Benjamin Disraeli His Grace The Duke of Argyll KT PC 9 December 1868 17 February 1874 Liberal William Ewart Gladstone The Most Honourable The Marquess of Salisbury PC FRS 21 February 1874 2 April 1878 Conservative Benjamin Disraeli The Right Honourable The Viscount Cranbrook PC 2 April 1878 21 April 1880 Conservative The Most Honourable Marquess of Hartington MP for North East Lancashire 28 April 1880 16 December 1882 Liberal William Ewart Gladstone The Right Honourable The Earl of Kimberley PC 16 December 1882 9 June 1885 Liberal The Right Honourable Lord Randolph Churchill MP for Paddington South 24 June 1885 28 January 1886 Conservative The Marquess of Salisbury The Right Honourable The Earl of Kimberley KG PC 6 February 1886 20 July 1886 Liberal William Ewart Gladstone The Right Honourable The Viscount Cross GCB PC 3 August 1886 11 August 1892 Conservative The Marquess of Salisbury The Right Honourable The Earl of Kimberley KG PC 18 August 1892 10 March 1894 Liberal William Ewart Gladstone The Right Honourable Henry Fowler MP for Wolverhampton East 10 March 1894 21 June 1895 Liberal The Earl of Rosebery The Right Honourable Lord George Hamilton MP for Ealing 4 July 1895 9 October 1903 Conservative The Marquess of Salisbury ( Unionist Coalition ) Arthur Balfour ( Unionist Coalition ) The Right Honourable William St John Brodrick MP for Guildford 9 October 1903 4 December 1905 Conservative The Right Honourable The Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM PC MP for Montrose Burghs until 1908 Viscount Morley of Blackburn after 1908 10 December 1905 3 November 1910 Liberal Sir Henry Campbell - Bannerman H.H. Asquith The Right Honourable The Earl of Crewe KG PC FSA 3 November 1910 7 March 1911 Liberal The Right Honourable The Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM PC 7 March 1911 25 May 1911 Liberal The Most Honourable The Marquess of Crewe KG PC FSA 25 May 1911 25 May 1915 Liberal The Right Honourable Austen Chamberlain MP for Birmingham West 25 May 1915 17 July 1917 Conservative H.H. Asquith ( Coalition ) David Lloyd George ( Coalition ) The Right Honourable Edwin Samuel Montagu MP for Chesterton until 1918 MP for Cambridgeshire after 1918 17 July 1917 19 March 1922 Liberal The Right Honourable The Viscount Peel GBE PC 19 March 1922 22 January 1924 Conservative Andrew Bonar Law Stanley Baldwin The Right Honourable The Lord Olivier KCMG CB PC 22 January 1924 3 November 1924 Labour Ramsay MacDonald The Right Honourable The Earl of Birkenhead KCMG PC KC 6 November 1924 18 October 1928 Conservative Stanley Baldwin The Right Honourable The Viscount Peel GBE PC 18 October 1928 4 June 1929 Conservative The Right Honourable William Wedgwood Benn DSO MP for Aberdeen North 7 June 1929 24 August 1931 Labour Ramsay MacDonald The Right Honourable Sir Samuel Hoare Bt GCSI GBE CMG JP MP for Chelsea 25 August 1931 7 June 1935 Conservative Ramsay MacDonald ( 1st & 2nd National Min. ) The Most Honourable The Marquess of Zetland GCSI GCIE PC 7 June 1935 28 May 1937 Conservative Stanley Baldwin ( 3rd National Min. ) Secretaries of State for India and Burma, 1937 -- 1947 Portrait Name Term of office Political party Prime Minister The Most Honourable The Marquess of Zetland GCSI GCIE PC 28 May 1937 13 May 1940 Conservative Neville Chamberlain ( 4th National Min. ; War Coalition ) The Right Honourable Leo Amery MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook 13 May 1940 26 July 1945 Conservative Winston Churchill ( War Coalition ; Caretaker Min. ) The Right Honourable The Lord Pethick - Lawrence PC 3 August 1945 17 April 1947 Labour Clement Attlee The Right Honourable The Earl of Listowel PC 14 August 1947 4 January 1948 Labour Secretaries of State for Burma, 1947 -- 1948 Portrait Name Term of office Political party Prime Minister The Right Honourable The Earl of Listowel PC 14 August 1947 4 January 1948 Labour Clement Attlee See also India Office British Raj British rule in Burma Governor - General of India Imperial Civil Service Government of India Act History of United Kingdom government departments with responsibility for foreign affairs Northern Department 1660 -- 1782 Secretaries Undersecretaries Foreign Office 1782 -- 1968 Secretaries Ministers Undersecretaries Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1968 -- present Secretaries Ministers Undersecretaries Southern Department 1660 -- 1768 Secretaries Undersecretaries Colonial Office 1768 -- 1782 Secretaries Undersecretaries Home Office 1782 -- 1794 Secretaries Undersecretaries War Office 1794 -- 1801 Secretaries Undersecretaries War and Colonial Office 1801 -- 1854 Secretaries Undersecretaries Colonial Office 1854 -- 1925 Secretaries Undersecretaries Colonial Office 1925 -- 1966 Secretaries Ministers Undersecretaries Commonwealth Office 1966 -- 1968 Secretaries Ministers Undersecretaries Southern Department 1768 -- 1782 Secretaries Undersecretaries Dominions Office 1925 -- 1947 Secretaries Undersecretaries Commonwealth Relations Office 1947 -- 1966 Secretaries Ministers Undersecretaries. India Office 1858 -- 1937 Secretaries Undersecretaries India Office and Burma Office 1937 -- 1947 Secretaries Undersecretaries Notes Jump up ^ Resigned after being injured in a hunting accident. Jump up ^ Resigned. Jump up ^ Resigned. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Secretaries of State for India. 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Question: which had created the office of the secretary of state for india
Answer: 1858