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Burnaby's Code is thought to have been drafted during March 1765, or during the first week of April 1765. Details of its creation are uncertain, though it is commonly thought to have involved little deviation from the custom of the Bay, being rather a written, explicit record of the settlement's 17th and 18th century constitution and common law.
In 1765 he sailed to Belize at the request of the loggers there to protect them from Spanish attacks, drawing up a Civil Law for the colony called Burnaby's Code, which some claim to be the world's first constitution [5] and that has been signed by two women. He returned to England in 1767 and on 31 October 1767 was created a baronet.
In 1765 Rear Admiral Sir William Burnaby, commander-in-chief of Jamaica, arrived in the settlement and codified and expanded their regulations into a document known as Burnaby's Code. When the settlers began returning to the area in 1784, [ clarification needed ] the governor of Jamaica named Colonel Edward Marcus Despard as superintendent to ...
A set of regulations called "Burnaby's Code" was adopted in 1765, which continued in force until 1840, when an executive council was created. Also in 1840, the colony formally became known as British Honduras, although it was also referred to as "the Belize".
In 1765 Admiral William Burnaby, commander-in-chief of the Jamaican Station sailed to the settlement because of threats of conflict with Spain. [40] He established the first constitution, known as Burnaby's Code which allowed participation of all free inhabitants of Belize, or those settlers of the Bay of Honduras, in the governance structure ...
The Burnaby Baronetcy, of Broughton Hall in the County of Oxford, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 31 October 1767 for Vice-Admiral Sir William Burnaby, High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1756. He was the son of John Burnaby, Ambassador to Sweden. The title is extinct.
William Burnaby was a British naval officer. William Burnaby may also refer to: Sir William Chaloner Burnaby, 2nd Baronet (1746–1794) of the Burnaby baronets; Sir William Crisp Hood Burnaby, 3rd Baronet (c. 1788–1853) of the Burnaby baronets; Sir William Edward Burnaby, 4th Baronet (1824–1881) of the Burnaby baronets
Burnaby was the son of John Burnaby, of Kensington, and his wife Clara Wood. [1] His brother was Sir William Burnaby, 1st Baronet. [2] He served as secretary to James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave as Ambassador to Austria and then in France. [3]