East Indies Station - Commanders-in-Chief

Commanders-in-Chief

Commanders-in-Chief have included:

Commander-in-Chief, East Indies:

• Commodore Curtis Barnett (1744–1746)
• Commodore (later Rear- then Vice-Admiral) Thomas Griffin (1746–1748)
• Rear-Admiral Edward Boscawen (1748–1750)
• Commodore William Lisle (1750–1754)
• Rear-Admiral (later Vice-Admiral) Charles Watson (1754–1757)
• Vice-Admiral George Pocock (1757–1759)
• Commodore (later Rear-Admiral) Charles Steevens (1760–1761)
• Rear-Admiral (later Vice-Admiral) Samuel Cornish (1761–1763)
• ...
• Commodore John (later Sir John) Lindsay (1769–1772)
• Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Harland, 1st Baronet (1771–1775)
• Commodore Edward Hughes (1773–1777)
• Commodore (later Rear-Admiral) Sir Edward Vernon (1776–1780)
• Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes (second time, 1780–1784)
  • Vice-Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet (appointed 1782 but lost at sea on his way out)
• Commodore Andrew Mitchell (1784–1785)
• Commodore Charles Hughes (1785–1787)
• Commodore William Cornwallis (1788–1794)
• Commodore (later Rear- then Vice-Admiral) Peter Rainier (1794–1805)
  • Vice-Admiral Sir George Keith Elphinstone (went to capture the Dutch East Indies in 1795 but Rainier had already done it)
• Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, 1st Baronet (1804–1809)
• Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet (jointly with Pellew, 1805–1807)
• Rear-Admiral William O'Bryen Drury (1809–1811)
• Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet (1811–1814)
• Commodore George Sayer (1814)
• Rear-Admiral Sir George Burlton (1814–1815)
• Commodore George Sayer (second time, 1815–1816)
• Rear-Admiral Sir Richard King, 2nd Baronet (1816–1820)
• Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Blackwood, 1st Baronet (1820–1822)
• Commodore Charles Grant (1822–1824)
• Commodore Sir James Brisbane (1825–1826)
  • Rear-Admiral Joseph Bingham (appointed 1825 but died before taking up post)
• Rear-Admiral William Hall Gage (1825–1829)
• Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Owen (1829–1832)

Commander-in-Chief, East Indies and China Station

• 1831–1865, see separate article

Commander-in-Chief, East Indies & Cape of Good Hope Station

• Commodore Frederick Montresor (1865)
• Commodore Charles Hillyar (1865–1867)

Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station

• Rear Admiral Leopold Heath (1867–1870)
• Rear Admiral James Cockburn (1870–1872)
• Rear Admiral Arthur Cumming (1872–1875)
• Rear Admiral Reginald Macdonald (1875–1877)
• Rear Admiral John Corbett (1877–1879)
• Rear Admiral William Gore Jones (1879–1882)
• Rear Admiral William Hewett (1882–1885)
• Rear Admiral Frederick Richards (1885–1888)
• Rear Admiral Edmund Fremantle (1888–1891)
• Rear Admiral Frederick Robinson (1891–1892)
• Rear Admiral William Kennedy (1892–1895)
• Rear Admiral Edmund Drummond (1895–1898)
• Rear Admiral Archibald Douglas (1898–1899)
• Rear Admiral Day Bosanquet (1899–1902)
• Rear Admiral Charles Drury (1902–1903)
• Rear Admiral George Atkinson-Willes (1903–1905)
• Rear Admiral Edmund Poë (1905–1907)
• Rear Admiral Sir George Warrender (1907–1909)
• Rear Admiral Edmond Slade (1909–1912)
• Rear Admiral Alexander Bethell (1912)
• Rear Admiral Richard Peirse (1913–1915)
• Rear Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss (1916–1917)
• Rear Admiral Ernest Gaunt (1917–1919)
• Rear Admiral Hugh Tothill (1919–1921)
• Rear Admiral Lewis Clinton-Baker (1921–1923)
• Rear Admiral Herbert Richmond (1923–1925)
• Rear Admiral Walter Ellerton (1925–1927)
• Rear Admiral Bertram Thesiger (1927–1929)
• Rear Admiral Eric Fullerton (1929–1932)
• Rear Admiral Martin Dunbar-Nasmith (1932–1934)
• Vice Admiral Forrester Rose (1934–1936)
• Vice Admiral Alexander Ramsay (1936–1938)
• Vice Admiral James Somerville (1938–1939)
• Admiral Sir Ralph Leatham (1939–1941)
• Vice Admiral Geoffrey Arbuthnot (1941-42)