1907 Imperial Conference

Meeting of leaders of the British Empire and its colonies in London May 2013 October 2022 1907 Imperial Conference United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom 15 April 1907–14 May 1907 London Heads of Government 7 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman(Prime Minister) 1902 Colonial Conference 1911 Dominion status, co-ordination of Imperial defence, Irish Home Rule, self-government for India, Imperial preference The 1907 Imperial Conference was convened in London on 15 April 1907 and concluded on 14 May 1907. During the sessions a resolution was passed renaming this and future meetings Imperial Conferences; previously, they had been called Colonial Conferences. The chairman of the conference was British prime minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. The conference decided to cease referring to self-governing British colonies as colonies and conferred upon them dominion status. Canada and Australia were referred to as dominions in the conference's statements while Newfoundland Colony and the Colony of New Zealand were granted dominion status by royal proclamation on 26 September. Natal and Cape Colony would unite with the two Boer colonies of Orange River Colony and Transvaal Colony, which had been given self-government in 1907, to form the Union of South Africa as a dominion in 1910. The possibilities of Irish Home Rule and self-governance for India were also discussed. Imperial preference was raised but rejected by the British prime minister due to British support for free trade.James Stuart Olson Robert Shadle Historical Dictionary of the British Empire: A–J 1996 Greenwood Publishing London 548 L-X-XYB_ZkIC 548 yes 0-3132-9366-X 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 Participants The conference was hosted by King-Emperor Edward VII, with his prime ministers and members of their respective cabinets:https://archive.org/details/imperialconferen02jebbuoft#page/n13/mode/2up The Imperial Conference: A History and Study II Richard Jebb Longmans, Green & Co London 1911 Nation Name PortfolioUnited Kingdom United Kingdom Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman Prime Minister (chairman) Lord Elgin Secretary of State for the Colonies Sir Edward Grey Foreign Secretary Lord Tweedmouth First Lord of the Admiralty R. B. Haldane Secretary of State for War H. H. Asquith Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George President of the Board of Trade Sydney Buxton Postmaster General of the United Kingdom Lord Lorebrun Lord Chancellor John Burns President of the Local Government Board John Morley Secretary of State for India Lord Crewe Lord President of the Council Winston Churchill Under-Secretary of State for the ColoniesAustralia Australia Alfred Deakin Prime Minister Sir William Lyne Minister for Trade and CustomsCanada 1868 Sir Wilfrid Laurier Prime Minister Sir Frederick William Borden Minister of Militia and Defence Louis-Philippe Brodeur Minister of Marine and FisheriesBritish Cape Colony Cape Colony Leander Starr Jameson Prime Minister Thomas Smartt Commissioner of Works25px Natal Frederick Robert Moor Prime MinisterTransvaal Colony Transvaal Louis Botha Premier Sir Richard Solomon Agent-GeneralNewfoundland Newfoundland Colony Sir Robert Bond Prime Minister New Zealand Colony of New Zealand Sir Joseph Ward Prime Minister See also Imperial Conference References External links Minutes of Proceedings of the Colonial Conference, 1907. Category:Imperial Conference Category:1907 in London Imperial Conference Category:1907 conferences Category:1907 in the British Empire Category:April 1907 in the United Kingdom Category:May 1907 in the United Kingdom Category:Henry Campbell-Bannerman Category:H. H. Asquith Category:David Lloyd George Category:Winston Churchill Category:Premiership of Wilfrid Laurier