Commanders in Chief of the Indian Army (Pre Independence)

Sl. No.	Commander-in-Chief	Tenure
1.	Major General Lord Clive	1765-67
2.	Brigadier General Sir Robert Baker	1770-73
3.	Colonel Alexander Chapman	1774
4.	Lieutenant General Sir John Clavering	1774-77
5.	Lieutenant General Sir Eyre Coote	1779-83
6.	Lieutenant General Robert Sloper	1784-85
7.	Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis { Also Governor-General }	1786-93
8.	Major General Sir Robert Abercrombie	1793-97
9.	Lieutenant General Sir Allured Clarke	1797-1801
10.	Lieutenant General Gerald Lake	1801-05
11.	Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis	1805
12.	General Lord Gerald Lake { Promoted to General and raised to peerage }	1805-07
13.	Lieutenant General Sir George Hewett	1807-11
14.	Lieutenant General Sir George Nugent	1812-13
15.	General Lord Moira { Elevated to the Marquis of Hastings while in India } { Also Governor-General }	1813-23
16.	Lieutenant General Sir Edward Paget	1823-25
17.	General Lord Combermere	1825-30
18.	General Lord Dalhousie	1830-32
19.	General Edward Barnes	1832-33
21.	General Lord Bentinck { Also Governor-General }	1833-35
22.	Lieutenant General Sir Henry Fane	1835-39
23.	Lieutenant General Sir Jasper Nicolls	1839-43
24.	Field Marshal Lord Gough	1843-49
25.	General Sir Charles Napier	1849-50
26.	General Sir William Gomm	1850-56
27.	General (The Hon.) George Anson	1856-57
28.	Lieutenant General Sir Patrick Grant { Officiating }	1857
29.	General Sir Colin Campbell	1857-60
30.	General Sir Hugh Rose	1860-65
31.	General Sir William Mansfield	1865-70
32.	General Lord Napier	1870-76
33.	General Sir Frederick Haines	1876-81
34.	General Sir Donald Stewart	1881-85
35.	General Sir Frederick Roberts	1885-93
36.	General Sir George White	1893-98
37.	Lieutenant General Sir Charles Nairne { Provisional }	1898
38.	General Sir William Lockhart	1898-1900
39.	General Sir Power Palmer	1900-02
40.	General Lord Kitchener	1902-09
41.	General Sir O'Moore Creagh	1909-14
42.	General Sir Beauchamp Duff	1914-16
43.	General Sir Charles Munro	1916-20
45.	General Lord Rawlinson	1920-25
44.	Field Marshal Sir Claude Jacob	1925
46.	Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood	1925-30
47.	Field Marshal Sir Philip Chetwoode	1930-35
48.	Field Marshal Sir Robert Cassels	1935-41
49.	General Sir Claude Auchinleck	1941
50.	General Sir Alan Hartley	1942
51.	Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell	1942-43
52.	General Sir Claude Auchinleck { Later promoted to Field Marshal while still C-in-C }	1943-47