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A viceroy (/ ˈ v aɪ s r ɔɪ /) is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice- , meaning "in the place of" and the Anglo-Norman roy ( Old French roi , roy ), meaning "king".
A steward is an official who is appointed by the legal ruling monarch to represent them in a country and who may have a mandate to govern it in their name; in the latter case, it is synonymous with the position of regent, vicegerent, viceroy, king's lieutenant (for Romance languages), governor, or deputy (the Roman rector, praefectus, or vicarius).
a synonym of viceroy; a common misuse of vicegerent (from Latin gerere, "to carry", "to manage", "to govern") This page was last edited on 28 ...
The viceroy title was usually reserved for members of the Portuguese royal family, the remaining governors receiving the title of governador-general; in Africa, from 1837 Portugal appointed a governor-general to govern the overseas province of Angola , and another to govern the province of Moçambique .
In the scope of the Portuguese Empire, the term "Viceroyalty of Brazil" is also occasionally used to designate the colonial State of Brazil, in the historic period while its governors had the title of "Viceroy". Some of the governors of Portuguese India were also called "Viceroy". Viceroyalty of Brazil; Governors of Portuguese India
Many members of the Fitzmaurices also became notable over the centuries, such as William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, the Prime Minister of Britain who negotiated with Benjamin Franklin and secured peace with America at the end of the American War of Independence, or Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Viceroy ...
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HMS Viceroy (D91), a British destroyer in commission in the Royal Navy from 1918 until the mid-1930s and from 1941 to 1945 RMS Viceroy of India , a British ocean liner and later troop transport in service from 1929 until it sank in 1942