Baron Bliss

Baron Bliss

Henry Edward Ernest Victor Bliss, commonly known as Baron Bliss (16 February, 1869 – 9 March, 1926), was a British-born traveller who willed some two million U.S. dollars to a trust fund for the benefit of the citizens of what was then the colony of British Honduras, now Belize.

The Bliss Institute (a performing arts centre that was previously a museum, research centre, and library in Belize City) was part of the benefits from this endowment, as were the city's Bliss Lighthouse (where Bliss's tomb is located), the Bliss School of Nursing, and various other medical facilities around the country.

Belize celebrates Baron Bliss Day each March 9 in his honour.

Bliss's early personal history as well as the origin of his "Baron" title is uncertain. He styled himself "Fourth Baron Bliss of the Kingdom of Portugal"; there is some speculation that the original Portuguese title was Barão de Barrato. He was born into a wealthy Suffolk family and was rumoured to have been disinherited for keeping a hansom cab waiting. He subsequently made a substantial fortune speculating in petroleum shares. Unfortunately he contracted polio and decided to travel the world in a luxury yacht. After spells in the Bahamas, Trinidad and Jamaica, he arrived in Belize harbour, where he found a climate which suited him. He was extremely fond of the local people, and despite the fact that because of his physical infirmity he never set foot on Belizean soil, he bequeathed the bulk of his fortune for the benefit of the people of British Honduras.

External links

* [http://sanpedrosun.net/old/98-91.html Baron Bliss Day on San Pedro Sun, Belize News]
* [http://www.mayabelize.ca/belize/baron-bliss-day.shtml Baron Bliss Day on MayaBelize, a tourist guide to Belize]


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