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Series
Crown Agents for the Colonies and Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations:...
Catalogue reference: CAOG 22
What's it about?
CAOG 22
This series contains unregistered private office files produced in the offices of the chairmen and directors of the Crown Agents - e.g. Sir Claude Hayes (Chairman 1968-1978), Alan H Challis (Director of Finance 1969-1973) and Mr E A Morris...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CAOG 22
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Title (The name of the record)
- Crown Agents for the Colonies and Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations: Private Office Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1962-1978
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains unregistered private office files produced in the offices of the chairmen and directors of the Crown Agents - e.g. Sir Claude Hayes (Chairman 1968-1978), Alan H Challis (Director of Finance 1969-1973) and Mr E A Morris (Assistant Crown Agent 1964-1967)
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The records in this series are arranged by the creating officer, and then by the original file reference system.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Other private office files, used by the Fay Committee of Inquiry and the Croom-Johnson Tribunal are in
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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CJH and DF file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, Chairmans Secretariat, 1967-1974
- Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, Office of the Director of Finance, 1966-1975
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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51 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1999 Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Sir Claude James Hayes (1912-1998) served with various government bodies, including the Civil Service Commission, 1938-1957 (during which time he completed war service in Europe), and the Treasury (1957-1965). He was a member of the Committee on Dissolution of the Central African Federation in 1963. In 1965 Hayes became Principal Finance Officer at the Ministry of Overseas Development, and in October 1968 he was appointed Chairman of the Crown Agents and retired in 1974.
Alan Hayward Challis (fl 1969-1973) was director of finance between 1969 and 1973.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15117/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: CAOG
Records created or inherited by the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations
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Crown Agents for the Colonies and Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations: Private Office Papers
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