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Correspondence from individuals on matters relating to Trinidad. Correspondents and...

Catalogue reference: CO 295/368

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This record is about the Correspondence from individuals on matters relating to Trinidad. Correspondents and... dating from 1895 in the series Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
CO 295/368
Date
1895
Description

Correspondence from individuals on matters relating to Trinidad. Correspondents and subjects are as follows:

  • J H Arnold (pension or other compensation for termination of his appointment as Government Printer);
  • W F Bishop (order for Tobago postage stamps);
  • Dr C G Brown (medical report on Mr F Pogson, health of Sergeant H Brooks);
  • R V Barrow (administration and finances);
  • J A Bulmer (postage and revenue stamps, personal allowance for sale of stamps, fee stamps);
  • Sir Frederick Napier Broome, Governor of Trinidad on leave in UK (electric lighting of Government House, agricultural industries [2 items], manager of Government stock farm, Fire Brigade instructor [2 items], hospital patients in St James Barracks, his views on education [2 items], powers of judges over magistrates in respect of gaol delivery, requisition of articles for the Yeomanry);
  • H Brooks (his ill-health);
  • Bhagwanlal (petition for employment);
  • C F Cadiz (his pension);
  • J Clark (Railway defalcations);
  • Dr E A G Doyle (query re continuation of his medical appointment);
  • John Fanning (application for retirement and pension [2 items]);
  • Mrs E Fitzgerald (claim for promotion by Mr J O'C Fitzgerald);
  • G L Garcia, Attorney General of Trinidad on leave in UK (further report on the Public Roads Ordinance);
  • W G Gordon (effect of Waterworks Ordinance on his property of Moha Estate at Maraval Valley);
  • Henry Honig (land tax in Tobago);
  • Sir H T Irving (John Fanning's pension);
  • C W Jackson (termination of his appointment [2 items], application for re-employment);
  • F H Lovell (application for post of Superintending Medical Officer at Jamaica);
  • J Lamont (Mr Tanner's pension);
  • W L Lewis (Widows and Orphans Pension Fund);
  • Colonel A Man (application for post of governor or administrator [2 items], delay in removing hospital patients from St James Barracks, stores for the Yeomanry);
  • C W Meaden (extension of leave, pension, withdraws application for retirement);
  • Merryweather and Sons (fire protection of Port of Spain);
  • R H McCarthy (date of passage to Trinidad);
  • A Douglas P Owen (application for promotion);
  • F Pogson (accepts appointment as Veterinary Inspector);
  • Mrs J Pantin (application for extension of leave on behalf of her husband);
  • J Benjamin Price (petition against Newspaper Ordinance);
  • Robarts and Company (their case against Mr Lees);
  • Robertson and Wallace (estate of E A Armistrong);
  • J Rudolpsen (requests continuation of house rent allowance while on leave);
  • Bertram S Straus (proposal for a water supply company at Port of Spain [2 items]);
  • H Renton St Clair (requests advance of £10 on his Government scholarship, requests payment of £50 to Gray's Inn);
  • Mrs M Scott (complains of improper foreclosure on a mortgaged estate);
  • A Ashley Telfer (requests commutation or advance of pension or re-employment);
  • Mrs E M Tanner (forwards medical certificate for J E Tanner, Railway enquiry);
  • J Edward Tanner (defalcation in Railway Department);
  • Bishop of Trinidad (re-employment of J G Graham);
  • J B White (calculation of his pension [4 items], special claims for pension);
  • White and Leonard (Mr Justice Lumb's costs in case of Anderson v Gorrie);
  • Arthur Woodlock (extension of leave);
  • Lieutenant Colonel D Wilson (extension of leave);
  • G T White (recommends that post of Chief Matron of the Female Prison be filled locally)

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
International
Labour
Railways
Taxation
Caribbean
Europe and Russia
Pay and pensions
Resources
Children
Education
Hospitals
Medicine
Prisons
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C987816/

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Colonial Office and Predecessors: Trinidad Original Correspondence

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