Consulate

British Consulate, Larnaca

Larnaca, OTTOMAN

Consulate in Larnaca; part of Foreign Office. 10 people in the register connected with it.

History

1799
Antonio Vondiziano becomes British Vice-Consul at Larnaca (to 1838, per Merrillees); Koudounaris, cited by Hadjicosti, calls him Chancellor of the English Consulate.
LarnacaAntonio Vondiziano Merrillees 2017 Hadjicosti 2001
1838–1843
Petros Pavlos Vondiziano acting British Vice-Consul (Merrillees; another reading gives 1840-41).
LarnacaPetros Pavlos Vondiziano Merrillees 2017
11 April 1843
Niven Kerr takes up the consulship at Larnaca; in 1846 he tries, for the British Museum, to buy the Sargon II stele from Kition, but it has already been sold to the Prussian consular agent (for Berlin).
LarnacaNiven Kerr Merrillees 2016
1849
Kerr nominates Demetrios Pierides as vice-consul; the appointment is annulled (Kiely and Merrillees: because of his rayah status). Kerr moves to Rhodes when the consular seat moves.
LarnacaNiven Kerr Demetrios Pierides Ulbrich & Kiely 2012 Merrillees 2016
1861–1864
Horace White British vice-consul (Hill: 1861-4); he buys the Idalion statuettes found in 1863 and, per French sources, has the wall round the great Amathus vase pulled down.
LarnacaHorace White Hill 1952, p. 281 Ulbrich & Kiely 2012 La France et l'archeologie…
1861
Robert Hamilton Lang begins acting as Vice-Consul on a number of occasions from September 1861.
LarnacaRobert Hamilton Lang Kiely 2020, p. 482
27 May 1864
London Gazette announces Dominic Colnaghi as Consul in Cyprus; he leaves for North Italy by August 1865. In 1865 he co-excavates the Salt Lake terracotta sanctuary with Pierides and the French side, and gives the finds to the British Museum.
LarnacaDominic Ellis Colnaghi Demetrios Pierides The London Gazette, issue… 1864, p. 2766 The London Gazette, issue… 1865, p. 3823 Bonato 2000
1865–1870
Thomas Backhouse Sandwith Vice-Consul, reporting to the Consul-General at Beirut; he buys and has dug Dali tomb finds and sells part to the British Museum.
LarnacaThomas Backhouse Sandwith Reeve 2021, p. 60
9 September 1871
Foreign Office notice appointing Lang Consul for Cyprus at Larnaca (Gazette 26 Sept 1871); Kiely: unpaid, 1871-72.
LarnacaRobert Hamilton Lang The London Gazette, issue… 1871, p. 4065 Kiely 2020, p. 482
1876–1877
Zeno D. Pierides acting Consul for Great Britain.
LarnacaZeno D. Pierides Karageorghis 1973

People

10 people

Staff and members · 10

Antonio Vondizianoconsul (1799–1838) · British Vice-ConsulMerrillees 20171799
Signor PeristianiEnglish consul1800
Petros Pavlos Vondizianoconsul (1838–1843) · Acting Vice-ConsulMerrillees 20171838
Demetrios Pieridesstaff (c. 1840–c. 1865) · chancelier, later dragoman; nominated vice-consul 1849 (annulled) · worked for itKiely 20101840–1865
Niven Kerrconsul (11 April 1843 – 1849) · ConsulMerrillees 20161843
Horace Whiteconsul (1861–1864) · British vice-consul (Kiely lists him as Consul)Hill 1952, p. 2811861
Dominic Ellis Colnaghiconsul (May 1864 – August 1865) · Consul in CyprusThe London Gazette, issue… 1864, p. 2766 The London Gazette, issue… 1865, p. 38231864
Thomas Backhouse Sandwithconsul (1865–1870) · Vice-Consul, reporting to the Consul-General at BeirutReeve 2021, p. 601865
Zeno D. Pieridesconsul (1876–1877) · Acting Consul for Great BritainKarageorghis 19731876
Robert Hamilton Langconsul (1861–1872)Kiely 2020, p. 482 The London Gazette, issue… 1871, p. 4065

Sources

1.Robert S. Merrillees (2017). “Cypriote antiquities in Late Ottoman Istanbul and Smyrna - II: Cypriote antiquities in the Greek Evangelical School Museum and their Trading in Late Ottoman Smyrna (Modern Izmir)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 121-164. Online
2.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2016). “Studies on the provenances of the stele of Sargon II from Larnaca (Kition) and the two so-called Dhali (Idalion) silver bowls in the Louvre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 46, 349-386. Online
3.T. Kiely (2010). “Charles Newton and the archaeology of Cyprus”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 40, 231-251. Online
4.Anja Ulbrich, Thomas Kiely (2012). “Britain and the Archaeology of Cyprus. I. The long 19th century”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42. Online
5.George Hill (1952). A History of Cyprus. Volume 4: The Ottoman Province, The British Colony, 1571-1948. Cambridge University Press.
6.Anna Holly Reeve (2021). “Ancient Cyprus in Leeds: Objects, Networks and Museums from 1870 to 1947”. PhD thesis, University of Leeds.
7.T. Kiely (2020). “Robert Hamilton Lang and the Archaeology of Cyprus”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 50, 483-523. Online
8. (1864). “The London Gazette, issue 22858, 27 May 1864”. The London Gazette, 2766. Online
9. (1865). “The London Gazette, issue 22997, 4 August 1865”. The London Gazette, 3823. Online
10. (1871). “The London Gazette, issue 23779, 26 September 1871”. The London Gazette, 4065. Online
11.V. Karageorghis (1973). Cypriote Antiquities in the Pierides Collection, Larnaca, Cyprus. Athens, Ekdotiki Hellados.
12.Lucie Bonato (2000). “Chypre dans les archives de Melchior de Vogüé, III-IV : la correspondance de Dimitri Piérides”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 30, 99-118.
13.M. Hadjicosti (2001). “Ormideia: tracing Cesnola's footsteps. Archaeological research and finds”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 53-69.
14.“La France et l'archeologie chypriote pendant ... (Duthoit mission 1865 section)”. scan 6.