Granville was named in 1880, after the British Colonial Secretary, the Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville.

In 1880 Parramatta Junction was renamed to Granville, after the British Colonial Secretary, Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville.

Another road, Dundas Street named for the Colonial Secretary Henry Dundas, was built east-west between London and York.

On April 20, 1960, Sir Milton Margai led the twenty four members of the Sierra Leonean delegation at the constitutional conferences that were held with Queen Elizabeth II and British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod in the negotiations for independence held at the Lancaster House in London.

Gladstone returned to Peel's government as Colonial Secretary in December.

* September 14 – Joseph Chamberlain resigns as British Colonial Secretary, in order to campaign publicly for Imperial Preference.

" Queensland ’ s Colonial Secretary A. H. Palmer wrote in 1884 " the nature of the blacks was so treacherous that they were only guided by fear – in fact it was only possible to rule … the Australian Aboriginal … by brute force " The most recent massacre of Aborigines was at Coniston in the Northern Territory in 1928.

After the 1953 Coronation incident, in December 1955, a Round Table Conference was held in London, on the future of Malta, attended by the new PM Dom Mintoff, Borg Olivier and other Maltese politicians, along with the British Colonial Secretary, Alan Lennox-Boyd.

Following a decision by the Admiralty to dismiss 40 workers at the dockyard, Mintoff declared that " representatives of the Maltese people in Parliament declare that they are no longer bound by agreements and obligations toward the British government ..." ( the 1958 Caravaggio incident ) In response, the Colonial Secretary sent a cable to Mintoff, stating that he had " recklessly hazarded " the whole integration plan.

To Lord Milner's satisfaction, the June 1899 negotiations in Bloemfontein failed, and in September 1899 British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain demanded full voting-rights and representation for the uitlanders residing in the Transvaal.

Joseph Chamberlain, the British Colonial Secretary, quickly moved to condemn the raid, despite previously having approved Rhodes ' plans to send armed assistance in the case of a Johannesburg uprising.

These figures included Cape Colony Governor Sir Alfred Milner, Cape Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes, British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, and mining syndicate owners or Randlords ( nicknamed the gold bugs ), such as Alfred Beit, Barney Barnato, and Lionel Phillips.

In the 1870s, the London Colonial Office, under Secretary for the Colonies Lord Carnarvon, decided to apply a system of Confederation onto southern Africa.

Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain explained in 1897:

The Colonial Secretary in Britain had however made it clear that a race based immigration policy would run " contrary to the general conceptions of equality which have ever been the guiding principle of British rule throughout the Empire ".

Macarthur was then appointed as Colonial Secretary and effectively ran the business affairs of the colony.

On June 7, after having received word of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, as well as the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and Benedict Arnold's subsequent raid on Fort Saint-Jean, he wrote to Colonial Secretary Dartmouth:

The Governor-General could be instructed by the Colonial Secretary on the exercise of some of his functions and duties, such as the use or withholding of the Royal Assent from legislation ; history shows many examples of Governors General using their prerogative and executive powers.

* William Thomas Mercer ( 1821 – 1879 ), British Colonial Secretary in Hong Kong, 1859 – 1868

" Lee Kuan Yew was secretly a party with Lim Yew Hock "-adds Dr Greg Poulgrain of Griffiths University-" in urging the Colonial Secretary to impose the subversives ban in making it illegal for former political detainees to stand for election.

However, Gaitskell was prepared to make Bevan Shadow Colonial Secretary, and then Shadow Foreign Secretary in 1956.

After securing a third term for the Conservatives in 1959 he appointed Iain Macleod as Colonial Secretary.

In Great Britain, Lord Hillsborough, who had recently been appointed to the newly created office of Colonial Secretary, was alarmed by the actions of the Massachusetts House.

Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies | Colonial Secretary

Though a junior minister he was sworn of the Privy Council and spoke in the House of Commons for successive Colonial Secretaries Lord Moyne and Lord Cranborne.

Somerset County boasts a number of beautiful county parks, including but not limited to: Lord Stirling Park ( part of the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge ), Colonial Park ( with a lovely rose garden ), Washington Valley Park ( with biking and hiking trails ), the Sourland Mountain Preserve ( hiking and mountain biking trails ), and the newest park in development called Raritan River Greenway ( which is being developed along the Raritan River in Bridgewater Township ).

Chartered in 1760 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, the town was named for General Lord Amherst, who commanded British forces in North America during the French and Indian War.

After only a few months as the Colonial Office he once again became Lord Privy Seal in April 1966.

Lord John Russell succeeds Herbert as Colonial Secretary.

In 1874 he took up the cause of Langalibalele and the Hlubi and Ngwe tribes in representations to the Colonial Secretary, Lord Carnarvon.

Lord Grey, Colonial Secretary, in a dispatch to Sir Harry Smith dated 21 October 1851, declared, " The ultimate abandonment of the Orange Sovereignty should be a settled point in our policy.

FitzRoy's report was endorsed by Colonial Secretary Lord Stanley, who said the actions of the party led by Thompson and Wakefield had been " manifestly illegal, unjust and unwise ", and that their deaths had occurred as a " natural and immediate sequence ".

( Colonial secretary Lord Hillsborough rejected his resignation.

In 1830 Goderich moved over to the Whigs and joined Lord Grey's cabinet, as Colonial Secretary.

His work was continued by his successor as Colonial Secretary, Lord Stanley, whose abolitionist legislation Goderich piloted through the House of Lords.

He left the Colonial Office in the same year, and did not wish to hold any further office, but Grey insisted on his taking the senior non-departmental post of Lord Privy Seal.

In 1895 he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies by his father-in-law Lord Salisbury, where he became junior to the Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain.

In 1957, Lord starred in Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot, which has run daily at Colonial Williamsburg since then.

Attendees included the British Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, Lord Listowel.

After an interval in opposition from 1874 to 1880, Lord Kimberley returned to the Colonial Office in Gladstone's next ministry ; but at the end of 1882 he exchanged this office first for that of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and then for the secretaryship of state for India, a post he retained during the remainder of Gladstone's tenure of power ( 1882 – 1885, 1886, 1892 – 1894 ), though in 1892-1894 he combined with it that of the lord presidency of the council.

To receive the charter, however, the association was told by Colonial Secretary Lord Glenelg it would have to become a joint stock company, a condition the association initially rejected.

The British authorities progressively eased restrictions on land sales after an agreement at the end of the year between the Company and Colonial Secretary Lord John Russell, which provided for land purchases by the company from the Crown at a discount price, and a charter to buy and sell land under government supervision.

In March 1869 he attended the inaugural dinner of the Colonial Society, at which Lord Granville mentioned that it was the intention of the government to extend the Order of St Michael and St George to the colonies.

The name Bathurst comes from the surname of the British Colonial Secretary Lord Bathurst.

In 1875 Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's Colonial Secretary, Lord Carnarvon, in an attempt to extend British influence, approached the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic and tried to organise a federation of the British and Boer territories to be modelled after the 1867 federation of French and English provinces of Canada, however the Boer leaders turned him down.