General elections were held in British Guiana on 15 October 1926. The elections were held under the 1891 constitution, which provided for a 16-member...

General elections were held in British Guiana in September 1930. Following the victory of the Popular Party in the 1926 elections, constitutional reforms...

the College of Kiezers formed the Combined Court. After the British took control of Guiana in 1803, the College of Kiezers was abolished, and its duties...

The Popular Party was a political party in British Guiana. The party was established in 1926 by a group of middle class liberals, and was led by Nelson...

been a British protectorate since 1888, declined to join the union. In the 1951 general election, the Conservative Party returned to power in Britain under...

The Combined Court was the legislature of British Guiana until 1928. In its final form, it consisted of a sitting of the Court of Policy together with...

in 1947 he was chairman of the Juba Conference. He was then sent to British Guiana in January 1954 by Oliver Lyttelton, the then-Secretary of State for...

Islands is the representative of the British monarch in the United Kingdom's overseas territory of the British Virgin Islands. The governor is appointed...

d'Ivoire  Greece 1953  Bhutan  British Guiana  Mexico (all women and for national elections)  Guyana (to vote) 1954  British Honduras  Gold Coast 1955  Cambodia...

from the Windward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Demerara (British Guiana). Delegates from Jamaica and the Leeward Islands were invited but unfortunately...

The Court of Policy was a legislative body in Dutch and British Guiana until 1928. For most of its existence it formed the Combined Court together with...

a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963) between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), also known as the Mau Mau, and the British authorities....

Massacre in 1770. Among further tensions, the British Parliament imposed the Intolerable Acts in mid-1774. A British attempt to disarm the Americans and the...

family firm of sugar merchants, spending time in the West Indies and British Guiana. During the Boer War he served with the 19th (Berwick and Lothian) Yeomanry...

(Blackbeard) as chief magistrate in 1703. In 1717, the Bahamas became a British crown colony, and the pirates were driven out. During the American War...

people in Great Britain or British Irish are immigrants from the island of Ireland living in Great Britain as well as their British-born descendants...

2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015. "Mauritius: Indo-Mauritians in the general elections". African Democracy Encyclopaedia Project. EISA. Retrieved 28 May...

Empire. They also campaigned against British foreign policy towards Saint Vincent, Grenada, and British Guiana. In 1950 Strachan wrote a letter to the...

Indonesia (restored in 2001 as Regional Representative Council) 1964 British Guiana (now Guyana) 1970 Ceylon 1978 Ecuador 1978 Philippines (restored in...

to capitalise on British military successes by calling an early general election, dubbed by contemporary observers as a "khaki election". However, Boer...

political party, the British Empire Citizens' and Workers' Home Rule Party. This party won a plurality in the 1950 general elections. However, the establishment...

founded by the Jesuits in Belgaum, India. The British Guiana 1c magenta postage stamp is issued in British Guiana in limited numbers; the one surviving specimen...

leases over various British imperial possessions. The U.S. gained the rights to establish new military bases in Antigua, British Guiana, Newfoundland, the...

the British South Africa Company (BSAC), a chartered company, on behalf of the British Government. From 1924, it was administered by the British Government...

a twelve-month period. A few months later, United Diamond Fields of British Guiana was incorporated as a limited company. The company used Oppenheimer...

Virginia gubernatorial election, Republican U.S. Representative George Allen defeated Democrat Mary Sue Terry, the former Attorney General of Virginia, for...

1922, after he defeated Nilo Peçanha in the 1922 presidential election, until 15 November 1926, when he transferred power to Washington Luís. A representative...

cooperation, following a period from 1926 to the 1960s when representatives from Suriname first attended the British Guiana and West Indian Labour Conferences...

(1:573) 5. Centre-Val de Loire (1:661) 6. Guadeloupe (1:670) 7. French Guiana (1:677) 8. Hauts-de-France (1:715) Lambert, Bishop of Ostia (c. 1036–1130)...

Western Hemisphere. When Britain and Venezuela disagreed over the boundary between Venezuela and the colony of British Guiana, Cleveland and Secretary...