For other uses, see Colonial Office (disambiguation).
The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created in 1768 from the Southern Department to deal with colonial affairs in North America (particularly the Thirteen Colonies, as well as, the Canadian territories recently won from France), until merged into the new Home Office in 1782. In 1801, colonial affairs were transferred to the War Office in the lead up to the Napoleonic Wars, which became the War and Colonial Office to oversee and protect the colonies of the British Empire. The Colonial Office was re-created as a separate department 1854, under the colonial secretary. It was finally merged into the Commonwealth Office in 1966.
Despite its name, the Colonial Office was responsible for much, but not all, of Britain's Imperial territories; the protectorates fell under the purview of the Foreign Office, and the British Presidencies in India were ruled by the East India Company until 1858, when the India Office was formed to oversee the administration of the new Viceroyalty of India (the Crown ruled India directly through a Viceroy after the Indian Rebellion), while the role of the Colonial Office in the affairs of the Dominions was replaced by the Dominion Office in 1925.
It was headed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, known informally as the Colonial Secretary.
The ColonialOffice was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created in 1768 from the Southern...
The Imperial ColonialOffice or Reich ColonialOffice (German: Reichskolonialamt) was a governmental agency of the German Empire tasked with managing Germany's...
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separately by the East India Company and then the India Office) was divided by the War and ColonialOffice into the following administrative departments: NORTH...
The NSDAP Office of Colonial Policy (German: Kolonialpolitisches Amt der NSDAP, K.P.A. or KPA) was a Nazi Party office formed in 1934. Its stated objective...
under the authority of the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the ColonialOffice in London. It did not operate in British India, where the same function...
The German colonial empire (German: Deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire. Unified...
British North America comprised the colonial territories of the British Empire in North America from 1783 onwards. English colonisation of North America...
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the report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry and a British ColonialOffice White Paper identified an article in the second issue indicating that...
Versailles in 1919, the office was abolished. Imperial ColonialOffice NSDAP Office of Colonial Policy Reichskolonialbund German Colonies in Africa German...
Hamburg with the support of Bernhard Dernburg, head of the Imperial ColonialOffice. In 1919 it was merged with the Hamburg Scientific Foundation to create...
1966, along with the ColonialOffice, which merged with the Commonwealth Relations Office to form the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (now the Foreign, Commonwealth...
Department of the ColonialOffice set out the situation of Transjordan in a memorandum. On 21 March 1921, the Foreign and ColonialOffice legal advisers...
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British Cabinet minister who headed the ColonialOffice, commonly referred to as Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary may also refer to: Chief secretary...
Western Australia was a British colony. The Colonial Secretary was the representative of the British ColonialOffice in Western Australia, and was usually appointed...
made to pay for the war. Joseph Chamberlain, then Secretary for the ColonialOffice, was questioned extensively as to whether or not Frederick Hodgson...
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NSW Calendar and Post Office Gazette; Gronow also designed the flag, which was based on the Colonial Flag of 1823. Like the Colonial Flag, the Federation...
The ColonialOffice Visual Instruction Committee (COVIC) was a scheme by the British ColonialOffice to publish lantern-slide lectures about the British...
British ColonialOffice in London. Rhodes commented: "It is humiliating to be utterly beaten by these niggers." The British ColonialOffice also decided...
of nationalism in West Africa, and a more liberal philosophy in the ColonialOffice geared toward future self-rule all began to be felt in Uganda. The...
The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are...
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the Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces and then the ColonialOffice, before the office of the Chief Whip moved into the premises in 1879 until 2001...