Colonial Office
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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Official: Board of Trade: correspondence., Apr 1901 - 30 Dec 1908
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 11/5
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: George Marks [Liberal MP for Launceston, Cornwall] and Sir John Barker [Liberal MP for Penryn and Falmouth, Cornwall] on the appointment of a Conservative to the post of Official Receiver in Cornwall; Ailwyn Fellowes [Deputy Chairman, Great Eastern Railway, later 1st Lord Ailwyn]; William Ridgeway, President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, on the importance of colonial officials learning anthropology; Joseph Pease [Patronage Secretary to the Treasury, later...
Dates:
Apr 1901 - 30 Dec 1908
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Cabinet: printed papers., 02 Feb 1911 - 31 Aug 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/26
Scope and Contents
Cabinet papers on various subjects including: the deposition given by the Sultan of Zanzibar [Tanzania]; an "all British" route between the United Kingdom and Canada; legal precedents relating to the King appearing in court as a witness [relating to a libel case involving King George V]; the mental infirmity bill; report on national expenditure; the treatment of the feeble minded; labour exchanges and the Dominions; unemployment insurance; a new Science Museum in South Kensington [London];...
Dates:
02 Feb 1911 - 31 Aug 1911
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Colonial Office: Correspondence., 06 Jun 1921 - 30 Jul 1921
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 17/7
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Herbert Samuel [High Commissioner in Palestine] on the sentiments of the Jews and difficulties in Palestine (2); Sir Laming Worthington-Evans [Secretary of State for War] on expenditure on British troops in Transjordan [later Jordan]; Sir Lawrence Guillemard [Governor of Straits Settlements (later Singapore and part of Malaysia) and High Commissioner for the Malay States, later part of Malaysia]; Stanley Baldwin [President of the Board of Trade] on payments to...
Dates:
06 Jun 1921 - 30 Jul 1921
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence, much on South African affairs., 01 Nov 1906 - 30 Nov 1906
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/17
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Charles Eliot asking to be considered as successor to Sir Frederick Lugard as [High Commissioner and Commander in Chief of Northern Nigeria]; 9th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (3) on subjects including honours in Natal [South Africa], WSC's comments on departmental minutes and Colonel Sir Percy Girouard; Mackenzie King [Deputy Minister of Labour, Canada] sending a memorandum on strike breakers being brought into Canada from Great...
Dates:
01 Nov 1906 - 30 Nov 1906
Conditions Governing Access:
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Official: Colonial Office: correspondence, much on South African affairs., 02 May 1907 - 29 May 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 10/25
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Louis Botha [Premier of Transvaal, South Africa] (3) on subjects including his stay in London; Salvatore Zammit on Maltese affairs; Josiah Wedgwood MP and ?Charles Strachey on taxation in northern Nigeria; 4th Lord Grey [Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada] on subjects including Canadian affairs; Francis Hopwood [later 1st Lord Southborough, Permanent Under-Secretary for the Colonies] (4); Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson [Governor and Commander in Chief, Cape...
Dates:
02 May 1907 - 29 May 1907
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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