Belize
 

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[B]1665[/B] first English settlement
[B]1862[/B] crown colony (British Honduras)
[B] 1 Jun 1973[/B] renamed Belize
[B]21 Sep 1981 [/B] independence

[SIZE="4"]Superintendents (subordinated to the governor of Jamaica)[/SIZE]

[B]1749 - 1758[/B] Robert Hodgson, Sr.
[B]1760 - 1767[/B] Joseph Otway
[B]1767 - 1775[/B] Robert Hodgson, Jr.
[B]1776[/B] John Ferguson
[B]1776 - 10 Mar 1787[/B] James Lawrie [B](b. 1722 - d. c.1800)[/B]
[B]1787 - Jun 1790[/B] Edward Marcus Despard [B](b. 1751 - d. 1803)[/B]
[B]Jun 1790 - Mar 1791[/B] Peter Hunter [B](b. 1746 - d. 1805)[/B]
[B]Mar 1791 - Jan 1797[/B] vacant
[B] Jan 1797 - 1800[/B] Thomas Barrow (1st time)
[B]1800 - 1802[/B] Richard Basset
[B]Jan 1803 - 1805[/B] Thomas Barrow (2nd time)
[B]1805 - 1806[/B] Gabriel Gordon
[B]1806 - 1809[/B] Alexander Mark Kerr Hamilton [B](b. 1767 - d. 1842)[/B]
[B]1809 - 1814[/B] John Nugent Smyth
[B]1814 - 1822[/B] George Arthur [B](b. 1784 - d. 1854)[/B]
[B]1822 - 1823[/B] A.H. Pye
[B] 1823 - 1829[/B] Edward Codd
[B]1829 - 1830[/B] Archibald MacDonald (1st time)
[B] 1830 - 1837[/B] Francis Cockburn [B](b. 1780 - d. 1868)[/B]
[B]1837 - 1843[/B] Archibald MacDonald (2nd time)
[B]1843 - 1851 [/B] Charles St. John Fancourt [B](b. 1804 - d. 1875)[/B]
[B]1851 - 1854 [/B] Philip Edmond Wodehouse [B](b. 1811 - d. 1887)[/B]
[B]1854 - 1857[/B] William Stevenson
[B]1857 - 1862 [/B] Frederick Seymour [B](b. 1820 - d. 1869)[/B]

[SIZE="4"]Lieutenant governors (subordinated to the governor of Jamaica)[/SIZE]

[B]1862 - 1864[/B] Frederick Seymour (s.a.)
[B]1864 - 1867[/B] John Gardiner Austin
[B]1867 - 1870[/B] James Robert Longden [B](b. 1827 - d. 1891)[/B]
[B]1870 - 1874 [/B] William Wellington Cairns [B](b. 1828 - d. 1888)[/B]
[B]1874 - 1877[/B] Robert Miller Mundy [B](b. 1813 - d. 1892)[/B]
[B]1877 - 1883[/B] Frederick Palgrave Barlee [B](b. 1827 - d. 1884)[/B]
[B]13 May 1883 - 1884[/B] Robert William Harley

[SIZE="4"]Governors[/SIZE]

[B]1884 - 1891[/B] Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy (from 1889, Sir Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy) [B](b. 1839 - d. 1900)[/B]
[B]1891 - 1897[/B] Sir Cornelius Alfred Moloney [B](b. 1848 - d. 1913)[/B]
[B]1897 - 1904[/B] David Wilson (from 1899,Sir David Wilson) [B](b. 1838 - d. 1924)[/B]
[B]15 Apr 1904 - 1906 [/B] Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott [B](b. 1857 - d. 1941)[/B]
[B]13 Aug 1906 - 1913 [/B] Sir Eric John Eagles Swayne [B](b. 1863 - d. 1929)[/B]
[B]19 May 1913 - Jan 1918[/B] Wilfred Collet (from 1915,Sir Wilfred Collet) [B](b. 1856 - d. 1929)[/B]
[B]29 Jan 1918 - 4 Sep 1918[/B] William Hart Bennett [B](b. 1861 - d. 1918)[/B]
[B]22 Mar 1919 - 1925 [/B] Sir Eyre Hutson [B](b. 1864 - d. 1936)[/B]
[B]16 Apr 1925 - 1932 [/B] Sir John Alder Burdon [B](b. 1866 - d. 1933)[/B]
[B] 9 Mar 1932 - 1934 [/B] Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster [B](b. 1879 - d. 1939)[/B]
[B] 2 Nov 1934 - 1939[/B] Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns (from 1936, Sir Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns) [B](b. 1887 - d. 1980)[/B]
[B]24 Feb 1940 - 1 Jul 1946[/B] Sir John Adams Hunter [B](b. 1890 - d. 1962)[/B]
[B] 1 Jul 1946 - 14 Jan 1947[/B] Arthur Norman Wolffsohn (acting) [B](b. 1888 - d. 1967)[/B]
[B]14 Jan 1947 - 1948[/B] Sir Edward Gerald Hawkesworth [B](b. 1897 - d. 1949)[/B]
[B]28 Feb 1949 - 1952[/B] Ronald Herbert Garvey (from 1950, Sir Ronald Herbert Garvey) [B](b. 1903 - d. 1991)[/B]
[B]21 Oct 1952 - 1955[/B] Patrick Muir Renison (from 1955, Sir Patrick Muir Renison) [B](b. 1911 - d. 1965)[/B]
[B]17 Jan 1956 - 1961[/B] Colin Hardwick Thornley (from 1957, Sir Colin Hardwick Thornley) [B](b. 1907 - d. 1983)[/B]
[B] 9 Dec 1961 - 1966[/B] Sir Peter Hyla Gawne Stallard [B](b. 1915 - d. 1995)[/B]
[B]11 Jul 1966 - Jan 1972[/B] Sir John Warburton Paul [B](b. 1916 - d. 2004)[/B]
[B]26 Jan 1972 - 1976[/B] Richard Neil Posnett [B](b. 1919 - d. 2009)[/B]
[B] 1 Jun 1976 - 1980[/B] Peter Donovan McEntee [B](b. 1920 - d. 2002)[/B]
[B]1980 - 21 Sep 1981 [/B] Sir James Patrick Ivan Hennessy [B](b. 1923)[/B]

[SIZE="4"]Governors-general (representing the British monarch as head of state)[/SIZE]

[B]21 Sep 1981 - 17 Nov 1993 [/B] Minita Gordon (from 14 Feb 1984,Dame Minita Gordon) (f) [B](b. 1930)[/B]
[B]17 Nov 1993 -[/B] Colville Young (from 22 Feb 1994,Sir Colville Young) [B](b. 1932)[/B]

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[SIZE="4"]Prime ministers[/SIZE]

[B] 7 Apr 1961 - 17 Dec 1984[/B] George Cadle Price (1st time) [B](b. 1919)[/B]
(first minister to 1 Jan 1964)
[B]17 Dec 1984 - 7 Nov 1989[/B] Manuel Esquivel (1st time) [B](b. 1940)[/B]
[B] 7 Nov 1989 - 3 Jul 1993 [/B] George Cadle Price (2nd time) (s.a.)
[B] 3 Jul 1993 - 28 Aug 1998[/B] Manuel Esquivel (2nd time) (s.a.)
[B]28 Aug 1998 - 8 Feb 2008[/B] Said Musa [B] (b. 1944)[/B]
[B] 8 Feb 2008 - [/B] Dean Barrow [B] (b. 1951)[/B]