Government department
Foreign Office
London, United Kingdom
Government department in London. 3 people in the register connected with it.
History
- August 1878Foreign Office told the BM Trustees (letter of 6 August) it would forward their request that the Government reserve all treasure and antiquities found in Cyprus to Sir Garnet Wolseley.
- December 1878Letter of 13 December: Wolseley wished an archaeologist to dig in Cyprus for the Government; Lord Salisbury could not sanction expenditure from island revenues, but would give letters if the Trustees sent one. Newton recommended R. P. Pullan.
- 1880Lord Tenterden's letter at the Foreign Office passed on Earl Granville's offer of a collection of Cyprus antiquities to the BM Trustees (Aradippou tomb and other finds).
Charles Stuart Aubrey Abbott, 3rd Baron Tenterden (Lord Tenterden)Earl GranvilleCharles NewtonBailey 1969Tatton-Brown 2001, p. 170
- 1880Control of Cyprus in London passed from the Foreign Office to the Colonial Office.
People
3 peopleStaff and members · 3
- Thomas Backhouse Sandwithconsul (1857–1865) · Vice-Consul Aintab and Marash, then HaifaWikipedia1857
- Earl Granvilleofficial (1880–1885) · Secretary of State for Foreign AffairsBailey 1969Tatton-Brown 2001, p. 1701880
- Charles Stuart Aubrey Abbott, 3rd Baron Tenterden (Lord Tenterden)official (1873–1882)Charles Abbott, 3rd Baron…
Sources
- 1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
- 2.P. W. Edbury (2001). “Cyprus in the 19th century: perceptions and politics”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 13-20. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
- 3.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.
- 4.“Charles Abbott, 3rd Baron Tenterden”. Wikipedia. Online
- 5.Wikipedia. “Thomas Backhouse Sandwith”. Consular career.
- 6.D. M. Bailey (1969). “The Village Priest's Tomb at Aradippou in Cyprus”. British Museum Quarterly 34, 36-58. Online