List of colonial governors and administrators of British Honduras

Superintendents of British Honduras (1749–1862)

• Robert Hodgson, Sr., 1749–1758
• Richard Jones, 1758–1760
• 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
• Thomas Potts, March 1791 - January 1797
• 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
• Allan Hampden Pye, 1822–1823
• Edward Codd, 1823–1829
• Alexander MacDonald, 1829–1830, first time
• Francis Cockburn, 1830–1837
• Alexander MacDonald, 1837–1843, second time
• Charles St. John Fancourt, 1843–1851
• Philip Edmond Wodehouse, 1851–1854
• William Stevenson, 1854–1857
• Frederick Seymour, 1857–1862

  Lieutenant Governors of British Honduras (1862–1884)

• 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 – 1884

  Governors of British Honduras (1884–1973)

• Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy, 1884–1891
• Sir Cornelius Alfred Moloney, 1891–1897
• David Wilson, 1897–1904
• Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott, 15 April 1904 – 1906
• Sir Eric John Eagles Swayne, 13 August 1906 – 9 May 1913
• Wilfred Collet 19 May 1913 – January 1918
• William Hart-Bennett, 29 January 1918 – 4 September 1918
• Sir Eyre Hutson, 22 March 1919 – 1925
• Sir John Alder Burdon, 16 April 1925 – 1932
• Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster, 9 March 1932 – 1934
• Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns, 2 November 1934 – 1939
• Sir John Adams Hunter, 24 February 1940 – 1 July 1946
• Sir Arthur Norman Wolffsohn, 1 July 1946 – 14 January 1947, acting
• Sir Edward 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
• Sir Peter Hyla Gawne Stallard, 9 December 1961 – 1966
• Sir John Warburton Paul, 11 July 1966 – January 1972
• Sir Richard Neil Posnett, 26 January 1972 – 31 May 1973

  Governors of Belize (1973–1981)

• Sir Richard Neil Posnett, 1 June 1973 – 1976, continued
• Peter Donovan McEntee, 1 June 1976 – 1980
• Sir James Hennessy, 1980 – 21 September 1981