Governors general and Viceroys of India - connections to Swetenham-26

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Governors-General and Viceroys of India - connection to Edmund Swetenham, Bengal Engineers

Out of 32 holders of the office of Governor-General of India, called Viceroy from 1858, 26 are cousins of Major Edmund Swetenham, of whom the closest is Lord Ellenborough, 6th cousin, with Eleanor Lowther née Fleming (abt.1583-1659) as common ancestor.

The closest connection to the Swetenham family is Lord Wellesley, whose great-niece Florence, Lady Nunburnholme née Wellesley was the grandmother of Ann Wilson who married Brigadier J. E. Swetenham.

Eight are connected by 9 degrees of separation (blood or marriage) to Edmund Swetenham: Canning, Elgin 8th Earl, Northbrooke, Lansdowne, Elgin 9th Earl, Minto 4th Earl, Hardinge of Penshurst, Irwin.

Eight are connected by 10 degrees of separation (blood or marriage) to Edmund Swetenham: Cornwallis, Wellesley, Bentinck, Auckland, Hardinge, Mayo, Chelmsford, Willingdon.

Seven are connected by 11 degrees of separation (blood or marriage) to Edmund Swetenham: Minto 1st Earl, Amherst, Ellingborough, Lawrence, Lytton, Dufferin, Linlithgow.

Five are connected by 12 degrees of separation (blood or marriage) to Edmund Swetenham: Hastings, Dalhousie, Ripon, Curzon, Mountbatten.

Ds = degrees of separation

	Start	End	Name	Ds	Connection to Edmund Swetenham, Bengal Engineers	Cousin
1	1773	1785	Warren Hastings	17	Hastings (3) → Creswicke (1) → Ashe (4) → Townsend (1) → Pelham (2) → Wandesford (2)	14c6
2	1786	1793	Lord Cornwallis	10	Cornwallis (2) → Whitbread (1) → Grey (1) → Ryder (3) → Parsons (2)	8c1
3	1793	1798	John Shore	13	Shore (2) → Browne (1) → Stewart (1) → Mackenzie (1) → Stewart (3) → Crofton (1) → Antrobus (2)
4	1798	1805	Lord Wellesley	10	Wellesley (4) -> Wilson (2)	9c2
5	1807	1813	Lord Minto 1st Earl	11	Elliot (2) → Eden (1) → Vansittart (2) → Fitzherbert (1) → Hall-Dare (1) → Parsons (3)	13c1
6	1813	1823	Lord Hastings	12	Rawdon (1) → Rawdon-Hastings (2) → Paget (3) → Crofton (2) → Antrobus (2)	8c2
7	1823	1828	Lord Amherst	11	Amherst (3) → Egerton (1) → Keppel (2) → Trotter (2) → Antrobus (1)
8	1828	1835	Lord William Bentinck	10	Cavendish-Bentinck (2) → Greville (2) → Crewe (1) → Cunliffe (3)	9c1
9	1836	1842	Lord Auckland	10	Eden (2) → Vansittart (2) → Fitzherbert (1) → Hall-Dare (1) → Parsons (3)	8c1
10	1842	1844	Lord Ellenborough	11	Law (1) → Digby (2) → Fox-Strangways (1) → Murray (4) → Archer (1)	6c
11	1844	1848	Lord Hardinge	10	Hardinge (3) → Neville (2) → Meyrick (1) → Charlton (2)	10c1
12	1848	1856	Lord Dalhousie	12	Ramsay (1) → Hay (1) → Montagu (2) → Dashwood (2) → Stewart (1) → Crofton (1) → Antrobus (2)	12c3
13	1856	1862	Lord Canning	9	Canning (1) → Stuart (1) → Yorke (2) → Savile (1) → Lindsay (1) → Antrobus (1)	11c
14	1862	1863	Lord Elgin 8th Earl	9	Bruce (1) → Lambton (1) → Grey (2) → Bulteel (2) → Archer (1)	12c2
15	1864	1869	Sir John Lawrence, Bt	11	Lawrence (2) → Buxton (2) → Dawnay (3) → Bulteel (2) → Archer (1)	10c2
16	1869	1872	Lord Mayo	10	Bourke (3) → Lindsay (4) → Antrobus (1)	9c
17	1872	1876	Lord Northbrooke	9	Baring (1) → Grey (2) → Ryder (3) → Parsons (2)	9c2
18	1876	1880	Lord Lytton	11	Bulwer-Lytton (1) → Plowden (6) → Liston (2)
19	1880	1884	Lord Ripon	12	Robinson (2) → Yorke (5) → Savile (1) → Lindsay (1) → Antrobus (1)	7c1
20	1884	1888	Lord Dufferin	11	Blackwood (1) → Rowan-Hamilton (2) → Stephenson (1) → Keppel (2) → Trotter (2) → Antrobus (1)	12c1
21	1888	1894	Lord Lansdowne	9	Petty-Fitzmaurice (1) → Hamilton (1) → Lambton (1) → Bulteel (2) → Archer (1)	9c2
22	1894	1899	Lord Elgin 9th Earl	9	Bruce (3) → Lambton (1) → Grey (1) → Bulteel (2) → Archer (1)	10c1
23	1899	1905	Lord Curzon	12	Curzon (1) → (2) → Lawson (1) → Graham (1) → Stewart (1) → Antrobus (2)	6c2
24	1905	1910	Lord Minto 4th Earl	9	Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1) → Grey (3) → Bulteel (2) → Archer (1)	14c2
25	1910	1916	Lord Hardinge of Penshurst	9	Hardinge (1) → Neville (2) → Meyrick (1) → Charlton (2)	10c1
26	1916	1921	Lord Chelmsford	10	Thesiger (3) → Handcock (4) → Archer (1)
27	1921	1926	Lord Reading	14	Isaacs (3) → Hornsby (1) → Strutt (1) → Coke (2) → Keppel (2) → Trotter (2) → Antrobus (1)
28	1926	1931	Lord Irwin	9	Wood (2) → Grey (2) → Bulteel (2) → Archer (1)	9c1
29	1931	1936	Lord Willingdon	10	Thomas (1) → Brand (1) → Ellice (1) → Courtney (1) → Grey (1) → Bulteel (2) → Archer (1)	8c2
30	1936	1943	Lord Linlithgow	11	Hope (2) → Herbert (2) → Lambton (2) → Bulteel (2) → Archer (1)	7c6
31	1943	1947	FM Lord Wavell	14	Wavell (4) -> Dene (4) → Anson (1)→ Harrison (1)→ Watson (2)
32	1947	1947	Lord Mountbatten	12	Battenberg (1) → Ashley (2) → Farquhar (3) → Lambton (1) → Bulteel (2) → Archer (1)	14c2