Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

The Right Honourable The Earl of Ellenborough GCB PC
Portrait by Frederick Richard Say
Governor-General of India
In office 28 February 1842 – June 1844
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	Sir Robert Peel
Preceded by	The Earl of Auckland
Succeeded by	William Wilberforce Bird (Acting Governor-General)
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office 1818 – 22 December 1871 Hereditary peerage
Preceded by	The 1st Baron Ellenborough
Succeeded by	The 3rd Baron Ellenborough
Member of Parliament for Mitchell
In office 1813–1818
Preceded by	George Hobart
Succeeded by	Sir George Staunton
President of the Board of Control
In office 6 March 1858 – 5 June 1858
Preceded by	The Lord Lyvedon
Succeeded by	Lord Stanley
In office 4 September 1841 – 23 October 1841
Preceded by	Sir John Jobhouse
Succeeded by	The Lord FitzGerald and Vesey
In office 18 September 1834 – 23 April 1835
Preceded by	The Lord Glenelg
Succeeded by	Sir John Jobhouse
In office 17 September 1828 – 1 December 1830
Preceded by	The Viscount Melville
Succeeded by	The Lord Glenelg
First Lord of the Admiralty
In office 1846–1846
Preceded by	The Earl of Haddington
Succeeded by	The Earl of Auckland
Personal details
Born	(1790-09-08)8 September 1790
Died	22 December 1871(1871-12-22) (aged 81) Southam House, Gloucestershire
Nationality	British
Political party	Tory Conservative
Spouses	Lady Octavia Stewart ​ ​ (m. 1813; died 1819)​ Jane Digby ​ ​ (m. 1824; div. 1830)​
Parents	Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough Anne Towry
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge

Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, GCB, PC (8 September 1790 – 22 December 1871) was a British Tory politician. He was four times President of the Board of Control and also served as Governor-General of India between 1842 and 1844.^[1]