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COMMANDER-IN-CHIEFS FROM INCEPTION TO INDEPENDENCE

1765 - 1947

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Commander-in-Chief Tenure
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1. Major General Lord Clive 1765-67
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2. Brigadier General Sir Robert Baker 1770-73
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3. Colonel Alexander Chapman 1774
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4. Lieutenant General Sir John Clavering 1774-77
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5. Lieutenant General Sir Eyre Coote 1779-83
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6. Lieutenant General Robert Sloper 1784-85
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7. Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis
{ Also Governor-General }		 1786-93
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8. Major General Sir Robert Abercrombie 1793-97
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9. Lieutenant General Sir Allured Clarke 1797-1801
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10. Lieutenant General Gerald Lake 1801-05
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11. Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis 1805
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12. General Lord Gerald Lake
{ Promoted to General and raised to peerage }		 1805-07
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13. Lieutenant General Sir George Hewett 1807-11
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14. Lieutenant General Sir George Nugent 1812-13
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15. General Lord Moira
{ Elevated to the Marquis of Hastings while in India }
{ Also Governor-General }		 1813-23
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16. Lieutenant General Sir Edward Paget 1823-25
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17. General Lord Combermere 1825-30
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18. General Lord Dalhousie 1830-32
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19. General Edward Barnes 1832-33
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21. General Lord Bentinck
{ Also Governor-General }		 1833-35
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22. Lieutenant General Sir Henry Fane 1835-39
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23. Lieutenant General Sir Jasper Nicolls 1839-43
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24. Field Marshal Lord Gough 1843-49
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25. General Sir Charles Napier 1849-50
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26. General Sir William Gomm 1850-56
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27. General (The Hon.) George Anson 1856-57
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28. Lieutenant General Sir Patrick Grant
{ Officiating }		 1857
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29. General Sir Colin Campbell 1857-60
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30. General Sir Hugh Rose 1860-65
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31. General Sir William Mansfield 1865-70
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General Lord Napier

1870-76
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33. General Sir Frederick Haines 1876-81
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34. General Sir Donald Stewart 1881-85
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35. General Sir Frederick Roberts 1885-93
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36. General Sir George White 1893-98
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37. Lieutenant General Sir Charles Nairne
{ Provisional }		 1898
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38. General Sir William Lockhart 1898-1900
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39. General Sir Power Palmer 1900-02
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40. General Lord Kitchener 1902-09
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41. General Sir O'Moore Creagh 1909-14
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42. General Sir Beauchamp Duff 1914-16
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43. General Sir Charles Munro 1916-20
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45. General Lord Rawlinson 1920-25
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44. Field Marshal Sir Claude Jacob 1925
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46. Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood 1925-30
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47. Field Marshal Sir Philip Chetwoode 1930-35
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48. Field Marshal Sir Robert Cassels 1935-41
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49. General Sir Claude Auchinleck 1941
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50. General Sir Alan Hartley 1942
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51. Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell 1942-43
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52. General Sir Claude Auchinleck
{ Later promoted to Field Marshal while still C-in-C }		 1943-47
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