List of Governors of Bombay
After establishing the presidency of Bombay as a province of British India , the crown installed Abraham Shipman as the first governor of Bombay in 1664 . In 1668 the city was ceded to the British East India Company , which then moved its administrative headquarters from Surat to Bombay. They named George Oxedender their first governor for Bombay. The region at that time was an archipelago of small islands and formed a small enclave on the west coast of India.
After the expansion of British rule to the hinterland, the post of governor gained importance. In 1803 the Presidency of Bombay consisted only of the islands of Salsette and Bombay and the cities of Surat and Bankot . The remaining areas were added by 1827. In 1862 the British Crown formally took possession of the region.
In 1947 the area became part of the independent state of India . The government appointed Raja Maharaj Singh as the first Indian governor. In 1950 the state of Bombay was founded including the former princely states . After Bombay continued to expand territorially in 1956, the new state of Gujarat was split off on May 1, 1960 and the rest of the area was renamed in the state of Maharashtra . The post of governor of Bombay was abolished and continued as governor of Maharashtra .
British crown (1664–1668)
- 1664-1664: Abraham Shipman
- 1665-1666: Humphrey Cooke
- 1666-1667: Gervase Lucas
- 1667-1668: Henry Gary
British East India Company (1668–1862)
- 1668–1669: George Oxeden
- 1669–1677: Gerald Aungier
- 1677–1681: Thomas Holt
- 1681–1683: John Child, 1st Baronet
- 1683–1684: Richard Kergwin
- 1684-1690: John Wyborne
- 1690-1694: Bartholomew Harris
- 1694-1694: Daniel Annesley
- 1694-1704: John Gayer
- 1704–1708: Nicholas Waite
- 1708-1715: William Aislabie
- 1715-1722: Charles Boone
- 1722-1729: William Phipps
- 1729-1734: Robert Cowan
- 1734-1739: John Horne
- 1739-1742: Stephen Law
- 1742-1742: John Geekie
- 1742-1750: William Wake
- 1750-1760: Richard Bourchier
- 1760-1760: John Holkell
- 1760-1767: Charles Crommelin
- 1767–1771: Thomas Hodges
- 1771-1784: William Hornby
- 1784-1788: Rawson Hart Boddam
- 1788-1788: Andrew Ramsay
- 1788-1790: William Medows
- 1790-1792: Robert Abercromby
- 1792-1795: George Dick
- 1795-1795: John Griffith
- 1795-1811: Jonathan Duncan
- 1811-1812: George Brown
- 1812-1819: Evan Nepean, 1st Baronet
- 1819–1827: Mountstuart Elphinstone
- 1827-1830: John Malcolm
- 1830–1831: Thomas Sidney Beckwith
- 1831-1831: John Romer
- 1831-1835: John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare
- 1835-1838: Robert Grant
- 1838-1839: James Farish
- 1839–1841: James Rivett-Carnac, 1st Baronet
- 1841: William Macnaghten , appointed in September 1841, was killed in Kabul in December before he could take office
- 1841-1842: George William Anderson
- 1842–1846: George Arthur
- 1846–1847: Lestock Robert Reid
- 1847-1848: George Russell Clerk
- 1848-1853: Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland
- 1853–1860: John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone
- 1860-1862: George Russell Clerk
British Crown (1862-1947)
- 1862–1867: Henry Bartle Frere, 1st Baronet
- 1867–1872: William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald
- 1872–1877: Philip Edmond Wodehouse
- 1877–1880: Richard Temple, 1st Baronet
- 1880–1880: Lionel Robert Ashburner
- 1880–1885: James Fergusson, 6th Baronet
- 1885–1885: James Braithwaite Peile
- 1885–1890: Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay
- 1890–1895: George Harris, 4th Baron Harris
- 1895–1895: Herbert Mills Birdwood
- 1895-1900: William Mansfield, 1st Viscount Sandhurst
- 1900-1903: Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote
- 1903-1903: James Monteath
- 1903–1907: Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington
- 1907–1907: John William Pitt Muir-Mackenzie
- 1907-1913: George Sydenham Clarke, 1st Baron Sydenham of Combe
- 1913-1918: Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
- 1918–1923: George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd
- 1923-1923: Maurice Hayward
- 1923-1926: Leslie Orme Wilson
- 1926–1928: Henry Staveley Lawrence
- 1928-1931: Frederick Sykes
- 1931–1937: Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne
- 1937-1937: Robert Duncan Bell
- 1937-1943: Lawrence Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough
- 1943-1948: John Colville
Independence (since 1947)
- January 6, 1948 - May 30, 1952: Raja Maharaj Singh (1878–1959)
- May 30, 1952 - December 5, 1954: Girija Shankar Bajpai (1891–1954)
- December 5, 1954 - March 8, 1955: Mangaldas Mancharam Pakvasa (1882–1968)
- March 14, 1955 - October 14, 1956: Hare Krushna Mahtab (1899–1987)
- October 14, 1956 - December 10, 1956: Mahommedali Currim Chagla (1900–1981)
- December 10, 1956 - April 16, 1962: Sri Prakasa (1890–1971)