John Stackhouse acted as the President of Bengal Presidency from the year 1732 to 1739, in the erstwhile British India. Stackhouse was also a renowned Colonial administrator of the British East India Company. He was appointed as the President of the province of Bengal on 25 February 1732 and was preceded by John Deane, who was also well known British administrator.

The Bengal Presidency was one of the 3 major Presidencies in British India, along with Bombay Presidency and Madras Presidency. It was originally comprised east and west Bengal and was a colonial region of the British Empire in India. The region included the territories of undivided Bengal like West Bengal, Tripura, Orissa, Meghalaya, Bihar, Assam and modern Bangladesh. The Bengal Presidency proper was formed with the signing of the treaties of 1765 between the Nawab of Oudh, the Mughal Emperor and the authorities of the British East India Company. As a result of this the regions of Orissa, Bihar, Meghalaya and Bengal were placed under the administrative control of the British East India Company.

Unlike the British Provinces of Bombay and Madras, Bengal Presidency included the British territories located towards the north of the Central Provinces (now Madhya Pradesh), from the openings of the river Brahmaputra and the Ganges River. It also incorporated areas in British Punjab and the Himalayas as well. John Stackhouse served in the position till 29 January 1739 and was succeeded by Thomas Broddyll, who acted as the President of the province of Bengal from 29 January 1739 to 4 February 1746.

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