This is a list of the commissioners of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, which gained full independence as Botswana in 1966. From 1885 to 1891 the post was known as Deputy Commissioner; from 1891 to 1964 as Resident Commissioner; and from 1964 to independence as Queen's Commissioner. In the table below, dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office. {| class="wikitable" |- align=left !No ! width="18%"|Tenure ! width="40%"|Name ! width="20%"|Notes |- | |colspan="3"|British Suzerainty |- valign=top | |colspan="3"|Bechuanaland Protectorate |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||John Mackenzie, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | ||| Charles Warren, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | ||| Frederick Carrington, || |- valign=top | |colspan="3"|(30 September 1885 to 16 November 1885) Divided into British Bechuanaland Crown Colony (south) and Bechuanaland Protectorate (north) |- valign=top | |colspan="3"|British Bechuanaland Crown Colony |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | ||| Frederick Carrington, || |- valign=top |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Sidney Godolphin Alexander Shippard, || |- valign=top | |colspan="3"|Bechuanaland Protectorate |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Sidney Godolphin Alexander Shippard, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |- valign=top | |colspan="3"|Bechuanaland High Commission Territory |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | ||| Sidney Godolphin Alexander Shippard, || |- valign=top | |colspan="3"|Under the High Commissioner for Southern Africa to 3 October 1963 |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Francis James Newton, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Hamilton John Goold-Adams, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | ||| Ralph Champneys Williams, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Francis William Panzera, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Edward Charles Frederick Garraway, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||James Comyn Macgregor, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Jules Ellenberger, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Rowland Mortimer Daniel, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Charles Fernand Rey, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Charles Noble Arden-Clarke, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Aubrey Denzil Forsyth-Thompson, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Anthony Sillery, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Edward Betham Beetham, || |- valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Martin Osterfield Wray, || |- valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||William Forbes Mackenzie, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||John Redcliffe Maud, || |- | |30 September 1960 |Independence Day Republic of Botswana | |- valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Peter Fawcus, || |- valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffec" | |{{small|3 October 1963 to 1 August 1964}}||Peter Fawcus, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |- valign=top | |colspan="3"|Bechuanaland |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | ||| Peter Fawcus, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" |- valign=top | |Bechuanaland||colspan="2"|Self-Rule|- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | ||| Peter Fawcus, || |- valign=top bgcolor="#ffffec" | |||Hugh Selby Norman-Walker, || |- valign=top | |30 September 1966||colspan="2"|Independence Day Republic