Botswana (01)

1884-1966 British rule


1884-1891

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1884 18 march UK protectorate of Bechuanaland Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson (I)
1889 1 may Henry Augustus Smyth
1889 13 december Sir Henry Brougham Loch

1891-1955

YEAR DATE EVENT HIGH COMMISSIONER
1891 9 may UK High Commission Territories of Southern Africa Sir Henry Brougham Loch
1895 30 may Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson (II)
1897 21 april Sir William Howley Goodenough
1897 5 may Sir Alfred Milner
1901 6 march Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson
1910 31 may Herbert John Gladstone, Viscount Gladstone (I)
1912 17 july Sir Reginald Clare Hart
1912 11 november Herbert John Gladstone, Viscount Gladstone (I)
1914 11 july Sir James Murray
1914 8 september Sydney Charles Buxton, Viscount Buxton
1920 17 november Beresford Cecil Molyneux Carter
1920 20 november Prince Arthur Frederick Patrick Albert of Connaught
1924 21 janaury Augustus Alexander George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone
1930 21 december Jacob de Villiers
1931 26 january George Herbert Hyde Villiers, Earl of Clarendon
1931 6 april Sir Herbert James Stanley (I)
1933 1 august Edward Evans
1933 1 december Sir Herbert James Stanley (II)
1935 7 january Sir William Henry Clark
1940 3 january Sir Walter Clarence Huggard (I)
1941 24 may William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech
1944 13 may Harold Eddey Priestman
1944 23 june Sir Walter Clarence Huggard (II)
1944 27 october Sir Evelyn Baring
1951 2 october Sir John Helier Le Rougetel

1955-1964

YEAR DATE EVENT HIGH COMMISSIONER
1955 4 march Sir Percivale Liesching
1959 11 january Sir John Primatt Redcliffe Maud
1963 Sir Hugh Southern Stephenson

1964-

YEAR DATE EVENT PRIME MINISTER GOVERNOR
1964 1 august UK Bechuanaland colony Sir Robert Peter Fawcus
1965 3 march UK self-governing Bechuanaland colony Sir Seretse Khama Sir Hugh Selby Norman-Walker


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