List of Governors of the Central Provinces and Berar

Chief Commissioners of Nagpur Province and Saugor Nerbudda territories

• 1861-1862: Edward King Elliot

  Chief Commissioners of the Central Provinces

• 1862-1864: Edward King Elliot
• 1864-1867: Sir Richard Temple, Bt.
• 1867-1883: Sir John Henry Morris
• 1883-1884: William Bence Jones
• 1884-1885: Sir Charles Haukes Todd
• 1885-1887: Dennis Fitzpatrick
• 1887-1889: Alexander Mackenzie
• 1889-1893: Sir Antony Patrick Macdonnell
• 1893-1895: Sir John Woodburn
• 1895-1898: Sir Charles James Lyall
• 1898-1899: Sir Denzil Charles Jelf Ibbetson
• 1899-1902: Sir Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser
• 1902-1904: John Prescott Hewett
• 1904-1905: Frederic Styles Philpin Ley
• 1905-1906: John Ontario Miller
• 1907-1912: Reginald Henry Craddock
• 1912-1920: Sir Benjamin Robertson
• 1920: Sir Frank George Sly

  Governors of the Central Provinces

• 1920-1925: Sir Frank George Sly
• 1925-1932: Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler
• 1932-1936: Sir Hyde Balwant Sharma Gowan

  Governors of the Central Provinces and Berar

• 1936-1938: Sir Hyde Clarendon Gowan ERaghavendraRao in 1936 may-september acting governor in place of Gowan
• 1938: Hugh Bomford
• 1938-1940: Sir Francis Verner Wylie
• 1940-1946: Sir Henry Joseph Twynam
• 1946-1947: Sir Frederick Chalmers Bourne