President of the Board of Control

Name 	Entered office 	Left office 	Party 	Notes
The Lord Sydneyfrom 1789, the Viscount Sydney	1784 	1790 	Tory 	
The Lord Grenville 	1790 	1793 	Tory 	
Henry Dundas 	1793 	March 1801 	 	
The Earl of Dartmouth 	March 1801 	July 1802 	Tory 	
Viscount Castlereagh 	17 July 1802 	11 February 1806 	Tory 	
Thomas Grenville 	11 February 1806	31 March 1807 	Whig 	
Robert Dundas 	31 March 1807 	July 1809 	Tory 	
The Earl of Harrowby 	July 1809 	November 1809 	Tory 	
Robert Dundasfrom 1811, the Viscount Melville	November 1809 	April 1812 	Tory 	
The Earl of Buckinghamshire 	April 1812 	4 February 1816 	Tory 	
George Canning 	March 1816 	January 1821 	Tory 	
Charles Bathurst 	January 1821 	January 1822 	Tory 	
Charles Williams Wynn 	January 1822 	January 1828 	Tory 	
The Viscount Melville 	January 1828 	19 September 1828	Tory 	
The Lord Ellenborough 	September 1828 	22 November 1830 	Tory 	
Charles Grant 	22 November 1830	14 November 1834 	Canningite/Whig	
The Lord Ellenborough 	15 December 1834	8 April 1835 	Conservative 	
Sir John Cam Hobhouse 	18 April 1835 	30 August 1841 	Whig 	
The Lord Ellenborough 	4 September 1841	23 October 1841 	Conservative 	
The Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey 	23 October 1841 	17 May 1843 	Conservative 	
The Earl of Ripon 	17 May 1843 	27 June 1846 	Conservative 	
Sir John Cam Hobhouse 	8 July 1846 	5 February 1852 	Whig 	
Fox Maule 	5 February 1852 	21 February 1852 	Whig 	
John Herries 	28 February 1852	17 December 1852 	Conservative 	
Sir Charles Wood 	30 December 1852	3 March 1855 	Whig 	
Robert Vernon Smith 	3 March 1855 	21 February 1858 	Whig 	
The Earl of Ellenborough 	6 March 1858 	5 June 1858 	Conservative 	
Lord Stanley 	5 June 1858 	2 August 1858 	Conservative 	became Secretary of State for India