Richard Posnett

{{Short description|British colonial administrator (1919-2009)}}

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{{Use British English|date=April 2016}}

{{Infobox Officeholder

| honorific_prefix =

| name = Sir Richard Posnett

| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|size=100%|country=GBR|KBE|CMG}}

| office = Governor of Belize{{Efn|name=name|Known as British Honduras until 1 June 1973.}}

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| monarch = Elizabeth II

| premier = George Cadle Price

| term_start = 1972

| term_end = 1976

| predecessor = Sir John Paul

| successor = Peter McEntee

| office2 = Governor of Bermuda

| monarch2 = Elizabeth II

| premier2 = Sir David Gibbons
John Swan

| term_start2 = 1981

| term_end2 = 1983

| predecessor2 = Sir Peter Ramsbotham

| successor2 = Mark Herdman {{small|(acting)}}

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1919|7|19}}

| birth_place = Kotagiri, India

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2009|5|11|1919|7|19}}

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Sir Richard Neil Posnett {{postnominals|country=GBR|KBE|CMG}} (19 July 1919 – 11 May 2009) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Belize{{Efn|name=name}} (from 1972 to 1976) and Governor of Bermuda (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 and a fluent speaker of Swahili.(26 May 2009). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/5389136/Sir-Richard-Posnett.html Obituaries: Sir Richard Posnett] – The Telegraph. Retrieved 1 May 2016.