Governor Generals are divided in three phases,

Governor General of Presidency of fort william in Begal ( 1773-1833)
Governor General of india ( 1833-1858 )
Governor-General & Viceroy of India (1858 to 1947 ).


Charter Act 1833 or also known as Indian Act 1833 replaced Governor General of Bengal with Governor-General of India and following Indian Act 1858 the title of Viceroy was added to Governor-General.

Below are few important Governor-Generals, there were a total of 52 G.G since 1773 to 1947.

1. Warren hastings ( oct 1773- feb 1785 )

1st Governor General
Stopped Mughal Pension to Shah Alam II
Started 1st Indian Newspaper " the Bengal Gazette "
English translation of Bhagwat Geeta

2. Marquess Charles Conrwallis ( sept 1786 - oct 1793 )

Established Lower courts and Appellate Courts
Introduction of Civil Services in India

3. Earl Richard Wellesley ( May 1798 - July 1805 )

Introduction of subsidiary alliance
established Fort William college
Formation of Madras Presidency

4. Francis Rawdon Hastings ( Oct 1803- Jan 1823 )

Ended policy of non-intervention
Treaty of Sagauli with Nepal
Creation of Bombay Presidency

2nd PHASE

5. Lord William Bentick ( july 1833- March 1835 )

1st G.G of India
Bengal Sati Regulation
Education Act 1835
Established Medical college and hospital, Kolkata

6. James Ramsay - Earl of Dalhouse ( Jan 1848 - feb 1856 )

Doctrine of lapse
1st Railway line
1st Telegraph line
Post office Act 1854
established Public Works Dept
established Engineering college Roorke
made simal the summer capital

3rd PHASE

7. Lord Canning ( 1856 until added Viceroy to the title )

G.G during war of independence
1st Viceroy of India
Opened universities in Bombay, Madras & Calcutta
Widow remarriage Act 1856

8. Robert bulwer - Lord Lytton ( 1876- 1880 )

Organized 1st Delhi Durbar
Vernacular Press Act
Indians Act 1878

9. George Robinson - Marquess of Rippon ( 1880-1884 )

1st Factory Act 1881
Repealed Press Act 1882
Local Self Govt Act 1882

10. George Curzon - Marquess of Kedleston ( 1899-1905 )

Partition of Bengal
2nd Delhi Durbar

11. Gilber Elliot - Lord Earl of Minto ( 1905-1910 )

Minto-Morley or Indian Council Act 1909

12. Frederick Thesiger - Lord Viscount Chlemsford ( 1916- 1920 )

Reforms & Govt of India Act 1919
Rowlatt Act
Jallianwala Bagh tragedy

13. Edward Wood -Lord Irwin ( 1926-1931 )

Gandhi Irwin Pact
Simon Commission
Civil Dis-obedience movement
1st RTC

14. Victor Hope - Lord Marquess of Linlithgow ( 1936-1944 )

Govt of India Act 1935
Crips Mission 1942
Quint India Movement

15. Archibald Wavell - Lord Earl of Wavell ( 1944-1947 )

Cabinet Mission Plan
Simla Conference

16. Louis Mountbatten - Lord Earl Mountbatten(March 1947 till independence )

last Viceroy of British India