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Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations: Records Made Available...

Catalogue reference: CAOG 21

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CAOG 21

This series contains all the records (both public and non-public in original status) which are known to survive that were made available to the committee of inquiry headed by Judge Edgar Fay and the tribunal headed by Sir David Croom-Johnson. It...

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Reference

CAOG 21

Title
Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations: Records Made Available to the Fay Committee (1975-1977) and the Croom-Johnson Tribunal (1978-1982)
Date

1956-1980

Description

This series contains all the records (both public and non-public in original status) which are known to survive that were made available to the committee of inquiry headed by Judge Edgar Fay and the tribunal headed by Sir David Croom-Johnson. It is not known if the two investigations made use of all the records in this collection, nor if they used, or had made available to them, other records which have not survived. Generally, the records concern the Crown Agents' ill-fated attempt in the late 1960s/early 1970s to build up an investment portfolio, principally in banking and Australian property stocks and shares. The records include registered files, minutes and papers of the board of Crown Agents, fund trading summaries and unregistered files.

Included are files from other series such as CA series (CAOG 17), finance series (CAOG 1) and Private Office files: CAOG 22

Related material

Records of the Croom-Johnson tribunal are in HO 268

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference

CAOG 20

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Physical description

393 files and volumes

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

From 1996 Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations

Subjects
Topics
International
Trade and commerce
Banking
Personal and family papers
Accruals

Series is accruing

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4000/

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

3,345 records

Within the department: CAOG

Records created or inherited by the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations

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Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations: Records Made Available to the Fay Committee (1975-1977) and the Croom-Johnson Tribunal (1978-1982)

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