Who was the only Viceroy of India to be murdered in office?

Q. Who was the only Viceroy of India to be murdered in office?
Answer: Lord Mayo
Notes: Lord Mayo was the only Viceroy of India to be murdered in office. While visiting the convict settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands in 1872 for the purpose of inspection, he was assassinated by a Pathan convict.

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