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Catalogue description Colonial Office and successors: Governor, The Bahamas: Registered Files
| Reference: | CO 1067 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Colonial Office and successors: Governor, The Bahamas: Registered Files |
| Description: |
This series contains registered files produced in the office of the Governor of the Bahamas. |
| Date: | 1964-1971 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Colonial Office, Governor, The Bahamas, 1717-1966 Commonwealth Office, Governor, The Bahamas, 1966-1968 Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Governor, The Bahamas, 1968-1973 |
| Physical description: | 10 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Selection and destruction information: | Selected under Acquisition Policy criterion 2.2.1.3, documenting UK relations with The Bahamas in the period leading up to independence. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
A governor had been selected from among the British settlers in the Bahamas before 1670, a move confirmed by the Lords Proprietors of Carolina who were granted control of the islands in that year. The islands became a Crown Colony in 1717, when a Governor was first appointed from London. The Bahamas were lost to British control between 1776 and 1783, after which time control from London was reasserted. The Governor continued to represent the UK in the Bahamas until independence was granted in 1973. |
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