viceroy

Britain’s viceroy of India, Archibald Wavell, wrote in his diary after Japan’s surrender: “So now for the horrors of peace.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

In his 2012 autobiography "An American Son," the man oft-memed as the "viceroy" of Cuba, recounts boasting to his exiled Cuban grandfather that he would one day overthrow Fidel Castro and free Cuba.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

“And the viceroy Mike Davis tells me — since it doesn’t actually say consecutive — that, I don’t know, maybe we do it again in ‘28?

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024

Relief efforts started to be put into place by the end of 1943 with the arrival of a new viceroy, Field Marshall Lord Wavell.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2024

That still left open the question of who would manage Livermore day to day, in effect as Lawrences viceroy.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

For decades, the Delhi Gymkhana Club was among the world’s most elite clubs, counting British viceroys and Indian royalty among its members.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

It was the homestretch for colonial rule: India would be independent, and the viceroys no more, within the year.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2023

After India won independence in August 1947, there was no clamour to remove the statues of monarchs and viceroys from the boulevards and roundabouts of the capital.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2020

In the New World, royal authority was enforced by two viceroys, royal officials who ruled over the northern and southern parts of the territory.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

She had been born and raised in a city six hundred miles away, a gloomy city where on ghostly nights the coaches of the viceroys still rattled through the cobbled streets.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez