Polity · 1796 CE – 1865 CE
British Ceylon
Ceylon
- Peak recorded area
- 28,908 km²
- 1796 CE
- Rulers on record
- 18
- from 1798 CE
Overview
British Ceylon, officially British Settlements and Territories in the Island of Ceylon with its Dependencies from 1802 to 1833, then the Island of Ceylon and its Territories and Dependencies from 1833 to 1931 and finally the Island of Ceylon and its Dependencies from 1931 to 1948, was the British Crown colony of present-day Sri Lanka between 1796 and 4 February 1948.
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Territory
2 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
Rulers
18 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- Frederick North, 5th Earl of GuilfordGovernor of British Ceylon1798 CE – 1805 CE
- Thomas MaitlandGovernor of British Ceylon1805 CE – 1811 CE
- John WilsonGovernor of British Ceylon1811 CE – 1812 CE
- Sir Robert Brownrigg, 1st BaronetGovernor of British Ceylon1812 CE – 1820 CE
- Sir Edward BarnesGovernor of British Ceylon1820 CE – 1822 CE
- Edward PagetGovernor of British Ceylon1822 CE
- James CampbellGovernor of British Ceylon1822 CE – 1824 CE
- Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, 3rd BaronetGovernor of British Ceylon1831 CE – 1837 CE
- James Alexander Stewart-MackenzieGovernor of British Ceylon1837 CE – 1841 CE
- Colin CampbellGovernor of British Ceylon1841 CE – 1847 CE
- George Byng, 7th Viscount TorringtonGovernor of British Ceylon1847 CE – 1850 CE
- James Emerson TennentGovernor of British Ceylon1847 CE
- Charles Justin MacCarthyGovernor of British Ceylon1850 CE
- George William AndersonGovernor of British Ceylon1850 CE – 1855 CE
- Henry George WardGovernor of British Ceylon1855 CE – 1860 CE
- Charles Edmund WilkinsonGovernor of British Ceylon1860 CE
- Henry Frederick LockyerGovernor of British Ceylon1860 CE
- Terence O'BrienGovernor of British Ceylon1863 CE – 1865 CE
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
Wikipedia contributors. Article lead sections, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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British Ceylon is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.