Edward Beetham
Template:RefimproveTemplate:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Sir Edward Betham Beetham Template:Post-nominals (19 February 1905 – 19 February 1979)[1] was a British colonial official who served as Resident Commissioner in Swaziland from 1946 to 1950 and in the Bechuanaland Protectorate from 1950 to 1953.
He was educated at Charterhouse School and Lincoln College, Oxford. He was Governor of the Windward Islands 1953–55 and Governor of Trinidad and Tobago 1955–60, where he presided over the transition to elected internal self-government.[2] Beetham was the last British colonial governor of Trinidad and Tobago of British descent. The Beetham Highway in Port of Spain is named after him.
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- 1905 births
- 1979 deaths
- 1950s in Bechuanaland Protectorate
- Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
- Colonial Administrative Service officers
- Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order
- Commissioners of the Bechuanaland Protectorate
- Governors of the Windward Islands
- Governors of Trinidad and Tobago
- Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- People educated at Charterhouse School
- Resident commissioners in Swaziland