Sir Richard Neil Posnett (19 July 1919 – 11 May 2009) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Belize (from 1972 to 1976) and

Governor of Bermuda The Governor of Bermuda (fully the ''Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Somers Isles (alias the Islands of Bermuda)'') is the representative of the British monarch in the British overseas territory of Bermuda. For the purposes of this a ...

(from 1981 to 1983). He was also briefly Commissioner of Anguilla (in 1969) and High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Uganda (in 1979). Posnett was a founder of the

Uganda Olympic Committee The Uganda Olympic Committee (IOC code: UGA) is the National Olympic Committee representing Uganda. It was created in 1950 and officially recognised by the International Olympic Committee in 1956. Presidents of Committee * 1950–1958 – Rich ...

and a fluent speaker of

Swahili Swahili may refer to: * Swahili language, a Bantu language official in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and widely spoken in the African Great Lakes * Swahili people, an ethnic group in East Africa * Swahili culture Swahili culture is the culture of ...

.(26 May 2009)
Obituaries: Sir Richard Posnett
– '' The Telegraph''. Retrieved 1 May 2016.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Posnett, Richard 1919 births 2009 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Governors of Anguilla Governors of Bermuda Governors of British Honduras High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Uganda Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Kingswood School, Bath People from Nilgiris district Uganda at the Olympics Ugandan civil servants