List of chief commissioners of Coorg Province

Below is a list of chief commissioners of Coorg Province:

# Name Assumed office Left office Remarks[a]
1 Lewin Bentham Bowring 24 February 1869 21 February 1870
2 Sir Richard John Meade 21 February 1870 5 June 1876
3 Charles Burslem Saunders 5 June 1876 1 April 1878
4 Sir James Davidson Gordon 1 April 1878 8 June 1883
5 Sir James Broadwood Lyall 8 June 1883 15 January 1889
6 Sir Oliver St John 15 January 1889 1 June 1891
7 Sir Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast 1 June 1891 16 April 1892 Acting
8 Philip Durham Henderson 16 April 1892 20 February 1895
9 William Lee-Warner 20 February 1895 18 September 1895
10 Sir William Mackworth Young 18 September 1895 7 December 1896
11 Donald Robertson 7 December 1896 5 November 1903
12 Sir James Austin Bourdillon 5 November 1903 22 November 1905
13 Sir Stuart Mitford Fraser 22 November 1905 26 August 1910
14 Sir Hugh Daly 26 August 1910 7 April 1916
15 Henry Venn Cobb 7 April 1916 8 March 1920
16 Sir William Pell Barton 8 March 1920 29 June 1925
17 Sir Steuart Edmund Pears 29 June 1925 23 June 1930
18 Richard John Charles Burke 23 June 1930 5 May 1933
18 Charles Terence Chichele Plowden 5 May 1933 9 December 1937
18 John de la Hay Gordon 9 December 1937 1 July 1940
19 J. W. Pritchard 1 July 1940 26 April 1943
20 Diwan Bahadur Ketoli Chengappa 26 April 1943 1949
21 C. T. Mudaliar 1949 1952
22 Daya Singh Bedi 1952 1956

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a ^ The Acting Governors were appointed for a temporary period until the post of Governor was filled.

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