Record revealed
Letters from the curator of St Vincent Botanic Gardens
Discover how plants travelled across the British Empire in the 19th century and the effect this has on our natural environment, and eating habits, today.
Series
Foreign Office: Chief Clerk's Department and Passport Office: Passport Registers
Catalogue reference: FO 610
What's it about?
FO 610
This series contains registers of passports issued, showing the intended destination of the applicant.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 610
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Chief Clerk's Department and Passport Office: Passport Registers
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1795-1948
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series contains registers of passports issued, showing the intended destination of the applicant.
-
Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
-
Arrangement
The entries are chronological, with a new numerical series starting on the appointment of a new Foreign Secretary.
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
- English
-
Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
-
- Foreign Office, Chief Clerks Department, 1782-1900
- Foreign Office, Passport Office, 1855-1968
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 410 volume(s)
-
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))
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7911/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
689,268 records
Within the department: FO
Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office
You are currently looking at the series: FO 610
Foreign Office: Chief Clerk's Department and Passport Office: Passport Registers
You may be interested in
Read stories that share a catalogue subject with this record.
-
-
Focus on
Henry Savage Sweetman: the man who uncovered Ireland’s medieval history
Henry Savage Sweetman published the Calendar which translated over 8,000 Irish medieval records. But who was Sweetman and why did he complete this project? -
Record revealed
The 1951 Refugee Convention
The 1951 Refugee Convention defined international obligations to refugees, but also exposed global tensions in a context of decolonisation and ongoing conflict.
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.