viceroy

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Soon he got permission to light up one of the city's most famous addresses - Raj Bhavan, the governor's mansion, once the residence of the British viceroy.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025

“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

However, in 1810, when peninsular judges deposed the viceroy and installed their own leader in the position, creole royalists were inspired to take full control of the government.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

In the foreground from left to right were Jawaharlal Nehru, then the vice president of the interim government of India; Lord Louis Mountbatten, the viceroy; and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the leader of the Muslim League.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2022

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