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Series
Cromer Papers
Catalogue reference: FO 633
What's it about?
FO 633
This series contains private and official correspondence and papers of Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer. They cover his diplomatic career as Chief Secretary to the Viceroy of India, as Commissioner of the Egyptian Public Debt and (later)...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 633
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Title (The name of the record)
- Cromer Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1840-1929
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains private and official correspondence and papers of Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer. They cover his diplomatic career as Chief Secretary to the Viceroy of India, as Commissioner of the Egyptian Public Debt and (later) minister plenipotentiary in Egypt; and the period when he was active at home in parliamentary and political affairs. The papers include some personal and literary correspondence. It should be noted that all these papers, with the exception of certain holograph reports in volume 16, are printed, either officially or privately, or typed.
A second collection of papers was presented to the Public Record Office in 1980. It consists mainly of officially printed volumes, correspondence to and from Lord Cromer, five volumes of the amended "Modern Egypt" published in 1908 and miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, pamphlets and booklets.
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Baring, Evelyn, 1841-1917
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 116 files and volumes
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Foreign Office , in 1958 and , in 1981
George Rowland Stanley Baring3rd Earl of Cromer, 1918-1991
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Part of the collection was presented by the third Earl of Cromer to the Foreign Office in 1958.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The original correspondence and letter books are not known to have survived.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7934/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: FO
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Cromer Papers
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