1897 Colonial Conference

Conference between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the British Empire May 2013 October 2020 1897 Colonial Conference United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom 24 June–8 July 1897 Colonial Office, Whitehall London Heads of Government 11 Joseph Chamberlain(Secretary of State for the Colonies) 1894 1902 Imperial council, imperial defence The 1897 Colonial Conference was a conference between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the 11 self-governing colonies of the British Empire. The conference was convened in London by Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain in 1897 on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Chamberlain's intention was to draw the self-governing colonies into closer co-operation with the United Kingdom.Kendle J.E. John Kendle 1967 The Colonial and Imperial Conferences, 1887-1911: A Study in Imperial Organization https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/74/3/999/91500 Imperial Studies XXVIII London Longmans for the Royal Commonwealth Society B0000CO3QA 10.1086/ahr/74.3.999 Delegates were sent to the conference by Canada, Newfoundland Colony, New Zealand, the Australian self-governing colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia, and the South African Cape Colony and Colony of Natal. Chamberlain proposed the creation of a permanent Imperial Council made up of delegates from the colonies to act as an Empire-wide parliament with the power to bind the colonies on imperial matters but this was rejected by the colonies due to fears of loss of autonomy. Chamberlain also propose that colonies increase their contributions to the Royal Navy but only some colonies agreed to increase their contributions and no permanent arrangement was agreed to.Historical dictionary of European imperialism 1991 Greenwood Publishing Group 0313262578 136–137 https://books.google.com/books?id=uyqepNdgUWkC Chamberlain also proposed a customs union between the colonies and Britain while Canada proposed preferential trade but no decision was made by the delegates.Colonial Conference https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qxsRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JZUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6172,322193&dq=colonial+conference&hl=en 27 December 2014 Sydney Mail 10 July 1897Historical dictionary of European imperialism 1991 Greenwood Publishing Group 0313262578 https://books.google.com/books?id=uyqepNdgUWkC 138 Participants The conference was hosted by Queen Victoria, with her Colonial Secretary and the premiers of various colonies: Nation Name PortfolioUnited Kingdom United Kingdom Joseph Chamberlain Secretary of State for the Colonies (Chairman) William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies Sir John Bramston Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the ColoniesCanada 1868 Sir Wilfrid Laurier Prime MinisterBritish Cape Colony Cape Colony Sir John Gordon Sprigg Prime Minister25px Colony of Natal Sir Harry Escombe Prime MinisterNewfoundland Newfoundland Colony Sir William Whiteway PremierNew South Wales Colony of New South Wales Sir George Reid Premier New Zealand Colony of New Zealand Richard Seddon Premier Queensland Colony of Queensland Sir Hugh Nelson Premier South Australia South Australia Charles Kingston Premier Tasmania Colony of Tasmania Sir Edward Braddon Premier Victoria Victoria Sir George Turner Premier Western Australia Western Australia Sir John Forrest PremierBig John Forrest, 1847–1918: A Founding Father of the Commonwealth of Australia Crowley, F.K. 2000 University of Western Australia Press 9781876268442 https://books.google.com/books?id=KFgN1KRalkgC 187https://archive.org/stream/cihm_00718#page/n0/mode/2up Proceedings of a conference between the secretary of state for the colonies and the premiers of the self-governing colonies at the Colonial Office, London, June and July 1897 [microform] 2 August 1897 9780665007187 27 December 2014 See also Imperial Conference References 30em External links Minutes of the 1911 Imperial Conference Category:Imperial Conference Category:1897 in London Colonial Conference Category:19th-century diplomatic conferences Category:1897 conferences Category:1897 in the British Empire Category:June 1897 in the United Kingdom Category:July 1897 in the United Kingdom Category:Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria Category:Premiership of Wilfrid Laurier