- List of Governors of British Honduras
This is a list of viceroys in
British Honduras andBelize from the start of British settlement in the area until the colony's independence in1981 . Until1862 , the territory was under the vice-regency of theGovernor of Jamaica , and administered by a Superintendent. After this is was a colony in its own right, and administered by a Lieutenant Governor, still subordinate to Jamaica. In 1884, the colony gained its own governor, independent of Jamaica.In 1973 the colony's name was changed to Belize and in 1981 it gained independence. For a list of viceroys after independence, see
Governor-General of Belize .uperintendents of British Honduras (1742–1862)
*
Robert Hodgson, Sr. , 1749–1758
*Joseph Otway , 1760–1767
*Robert Hodgson, Jr. , 1767–1775
* John Ferguson, 1776
*James Lawrie , 1776–10 March 1787
*Edward Marcus Despard , 1787–June 1790
*Peter Hunter , June 1790–March 1791: (vacant)
* Thomas Barrow, January 1797–1800, "first time"
* Richard Basset, 1800–1802
* Thomas Barrow, January 1803–1805, "second time"
*Gabriel Gordon , 1805–1806
*Alexander Mark Kerr Hamilton , 1806–1809
*John Nugent Smyth , 1809–1814
*George Arthur , 1814–1822
*A. H. Pye , 1822–1823
*Edward Codd , 1823–1829
*Archibald MacDonald , 1829–1830, "first time"
*Francis Cockburn , 1830–1837
*Archibald MacDonald , 1837–1843, "second time"
*Charles St. John Fancourt , 1843–1851
*Philip Edmond Wodehouse , 1851–1854
* William Stevenson, 1854–1857
*Frederick Seymour , 1857–1862Lieutenant Governors of British Honduras (1862–1884)
In
1862 , the territory became a crown colony, and was subsequently administered by a Lieutenant Governor, subordinate to the Governor of Jamaica.*
Frederick Seymour , 1862–1864, "continued"
*John Gardiner Austin , 1864–1867
*James Robert Longden , 1867–1870
*William Wellington Cairns , 1870–1874
*Robert Miller Mundy , 1874–1877
*Frederick Palgrave Barlee , 1877–1883
*Robert William Harley ,13 May 1883 –1884Governors of British Honduras (1884–1973)
In
1884 , the colony was severed from its dependency to Jamaica and gained its own Governor.
*Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy , 1884–1891
* SirCornelius Alfred Moloney , 1891–1897
* David Wilson, 1897–1904
* SirErnest Bickham Sweet-Escott ,15 April 1904 –1906
* SirEric John Eagles Swayne ,13 August 1906 –1913
*Wilfred Collet 19 May 1913 –January 1918
*William Hart-Bennett ,29 January 1918 –4 September 1918
* SirEyre Hutson ,22 March 1919 –1925
* SirJohn Alder Burdon ,16 April 1925 –1932
* SirHarold Baxter Kittermaster ,9 March 1932 –1934
*Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns ,2 November 1934 –1939
* SirJohn Adams Hunter ,24 February 1940 –1 July 1946
*Arthur Norman Wolffsohn ,1 July 1946 –14 January 1947 , "acting"
* SirEdward Gerald Hawkesworth ,14 January 1947 –1948
*Ronald Herbert Garvey ,28 February 1949 –1952
*Patrick Muir Renison ,21 October 1952 –1955
*Colin Hardwick Thornley ,17 January 1956 –1961
* SirPeter Hyla Gawne Stallard ,9 December 1961 –1966
* SirJohn Warburton Paul ,11 July 1966 –January 1972
* SirRichard Neil Posnett ,26 January 1972 –31 May 1973 Governors of Belize (1973–1981)
On
1 June 1973 , the colony of British Honduras was renamed Belize.
* SirRichard Neil Posnett ,1 June 1973 –1976, "continued"
*Peter Donovan McEntee ,1 June 1976 –1980
* SirJames Patrick Ivan Hennessy , 1980–21 September 1981 On
21 September 1981 Belize gained independence from the United Kingdom. For viceroys of Belize after independence, seeGovernor-General of Belize .References
* http://www.rulers.org/rulb1.html#belize
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