No |
Tenure |
Name |
Notes |
|
British Suzerainty |
|
Bechuanaland Protectorate |
|
1884 to January 1885 | John Mackenzie, Resident | |
|
23 March 1885 to 24 September 1885 | Sir Charles Warren, Special Commissioner, Military Commander | |
|
24 September 1885 to 30 September 1885 | Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Carrington, Special Commissioner, Military Commander | |
|
(30 September 1885 to 16 November 1885) Divided into British Bechuanaland Crown Colony (south) and Bechuanaland Protectorate (north) |
|
British Bechuanaland Crown Colony |
|
30 September 1885 to 23 October 1885 | Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Carrington, Special Commissioner, Military Commander | |
|
23 October 1885 to 16 November 1885 | Sidney Godolphin Alexander Shippard, Administrator | |
|
Bechuanaland Protectorate |
|
30 September 1885 to 9 May 1891 | Sidney Godolphin Alexander Shippard, Administrator | knighted during tenure |
|
Bechuanaland High Commission Territory |
|
9 May 1891 to 1895 | Sir Sidney Godolphin Alexander Shippard, Resident Commissioner | |
|
Under the High Commissioner for Southern Africa to 3 October 1963 |
|
19 November 1895 to 1897 | Francis James Newton, Resident Commissioner | |
|
21 December 1897 to 1900 | Hamilton John Goold-Adams, Resident Commissioner | |
|
January 1901 to 1906 | Sir Ralph Champneys Williams, Resident Commissioner | |
|
1906 to 1916 | Francis William Panzera, Resident Commissioner | |
|
1916 to 1917 | Edward Charles Frederick Garraway, Resident Commissioner | |
|
1917 to 1923 | James Comyn Macgregor, Resident Commissioner | knighted during tenure |
|
1923 to 1927 | Jules Ellenberger, Resident Commissioner | |
|
1928 to 1930 | Rowland Mortimer Daniel, Resident Commissioner | |
|
1930 to 1937 | Charles Fernand Rey, Resident Commissioner | |
|
1937 to 1942 | Charles Noble Arden-Clarke, Resident Commissioner | |
|
1942 to 1946 | Aubrey Denzil Forsyth-Thompson, Resident Commissioner | |
|
1946 to 1950 | Anthony Sillery, Resident Commissioner | |
|
1950 to 1953 | Edward Betham Beetham, Resident Commissioner | |
|
1955 to 1959 | Martin Osterfield Wray, Resident Commissioner | |
|
1953 to 1955 | William Forbes Mackenzie, Resident Commissioner | |
|
1959 to 1960 | John Redcliffe Maud, Resident Commissioner | |
|
30 September 1960 |
Independence Day Republic of Botswana |
|
|
1960 to 3 October 1963 | Peter Fawcus, Resident Commissioner | |
|
3 October 1963 to 1 August 1964 | Peter Fawcus, Commissioner | knighted during tenure |
|
Bechuanaland |
|
1 August 1964 to 3 March 1965 | Sir Peter Fawcus, KBE, CMG, Commissioner | |
|
Bechuanaland | Self-Rule |
|
3 March 1965 to 1965 | Sir Peter Fawcus, KBE, CMG, Commissioner | |
|
1965 to 30 September 1966 | Hugh Selby Norman-Walker, Commissioner | knighted during tenure |
|
30 September 1966 | Independence Day Republic of Botswana |