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Series
Colonial Office: Honours: Original Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 448
What's it about?
CO 448
This series contains original correspondence relating to honours.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 448
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Honours: Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1858-1974
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains original correspondence relating to honours.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Bound volumes arranged chronologically within the following subject headings: Despatches (letters of the governors), Offices (letters of government departments and other organisations) and Individuals (arranged alphabetically). Each volume with a contents list, or précis of each letter giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter. From 1926 the correspondence is arranged in subject files.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For records relating to the Imperial Service Order (Dominions) see DO 81
For records relating to the Imperial Service Order see CO 524
For records relating to the Order of St Michael and St George see CO 447
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 153 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2019 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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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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- Topics
- International
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For registers of this correspondence see CO 728
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
- The functions of the Treaty and Royal Letter Department were to prepare theformal documents of diplomatic representation and treaty negotiation, to dealwith matters of protocol and to engross treaties; it was not concerned with theactual negotiation of treaties. The appointment of a clerk to deal specificallywith these functions dates from 1813 and he was given an assistant in 1817.Between 1841 and 1854 the superintendence of the Treaty and Royal LetterDepartment was one of the duties of the chief clerk, but in 1854 the departmentwas established as a separate entity. In addition to its responsibilities forformal documents, it dealt with British and foreign orders and medals,shipwreck and honorary awards, precedence, diplomatic privilege, presents,foreign titles of nobility and letters of introduction. Honours and awardsremained part of a separate Treaty Department from World War I through to 1951when they became part of the Protocol Department. By 1962 honours and awardssat within the Protocol, Treaty and Nationality Department and remained as partof the Protocol department after the amalgamation of the Foreign Office and theCommonwealth Office in 1968. A separate Honours section was created in 1993. In2000 the honours remit became part of the FCO Protocol Directorate.
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Copies information (Indicates existence, availability, location and format of copies)
- Microfilm copies were created as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (1948-1997). The microfilm images have been digitised and made available online by the National Library of Australia.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4638/
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