Henry Clifton Fairweather (1906-2002) was a land surveyor and town planner in Belize and is known for planting over one hundred thousand mahogany trees.
During his career as a surveyor, he was involved in the founding of the Cross Country Cycling Classic race in 1928.
[1] In 1933, he was a member of a survey team that helped define the border between Belize and Guatemala.
[3] In the 1950s, Philip Goldson established the Department of Housing and Planning and appointed Fairweather as its first director.
He planted over 100,000 of them at his own expense during the next two decades, earning the nickname "Mahogany Man" in the process.