Statutory British Protected Persons
Today a person is a statutory BPP if he or she:
| Protectorate / trust territory | Independent state | Independence day |
|---|---|---|
| Bechuanaland Protectorate | Botswana | 30 September 1966 |
| British Solomon Islands Protectorate | Solomon Islands | 7 July 1978 |
| Gambia Protectorate | Gambia | 18 February 1965 |
| Kamaran | South Yemen | 30 November 1967 |
| Kenya Protectorate | Kenya | 12 December 1963 |
| Nigeria Protectorate | Nigeria | 1 October 1960 |
| Northern Rhodesia | Zambia | 24 October 1964 |
| Northern Territories of the Gold Coast | Ghana | 6 March 1957 |
| Nyasaland Protectorate | Malawi | 6 July 1964 |
| Protectorate of South Arabia | South Yemen | 30 November 1967 |
| Sierra Leone Protectorate | Sierra Leone | 27 April 1961 |
| Uganda Protectorate | Uganda | 9 October 1962 |
| Tanganyika | Tanganyika | 9 December 1961 |
| British Togoland | Ghana | 6 March 1957 |
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Famous quotes containing the words british, protected and/or persons:
“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been—what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal—needs to be protected from people.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)