King George VI, on the advice of British PM Clement Attlee, appointed Lord Louis Mountbatten as India’s last Viceroy of India ...

The title Governor General of India was introduced in the year 1833, with William Bentinck being the first to hold this title; however, the viceroy title was first introduced in 1858 after the ...

His wife was later buried with him. The small lozenge shaped stone originally read: Freeman Freeman-Thomas 1866-1941 1st Marquess of Willingdon, Viceroy of India & Governor General of Canada.

Lord Reading was the first Jew to become a Marquess and the first Jew to hold the positions of Viceroy of India, Attorney General, Lord Chief Justice and British Ambassador to the United States.

In 1888, Gauhar gave her first performance and was appointed ... a luxury allowed only to the Viceroy of India at that time. Gauhar paid a fine of ₹1,000 rupees for flouting government laws ...