Belize






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

Superintendents (subordinated to the governor of Jamaica)

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

Lieutenant governors (subordinated to the governor of Jamaica)

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

Governors

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

Governors-general (representing the British monarch as head of state)

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

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Prime ministers

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