Lord Mountbatten , was the last Viceroy of British Indian Empire and the first Governor General of independent India. Lord Mountbatten , the British admiral and statesman, formerly known as Louis of Battenberg was deemed to be the person without whom independence in India would not have come so early. Lord Mountbatten, a retired British statesman and cousin to Elizabeth II, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 off the coast of Mullaghmore, Ireland. As India’s final Viceroy and its first Governor-General, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten , 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, was a British diplomat and naval officer. Lord Mountbatten started the process to transfer power as soon as he arrived. Lord Louis Mountbatten © Mountbatten was a British naval officer who oversaw the defeat of the Japanese offensive towards India during World War Two.
