Crown Agents

Crown Agents expanded its activities to include more international development projects and investment management.

Crown Agents serves as a contractor to a number of governments, taking over the running of these functions.

In 1921 he was appointed one of the Crown Agents, retiring in 1932.

Crown Agents originated as a body conducting financial transactions for British colonies.

In 1861, the Office was renamed Crown Agents for the Colonies.

Crown Agents also oversaw specific colonial projects, such as certain postage stamp issues and some infrastructure construction.

In 1974 he moved to the Crown Agents, which was in financial difficulty following the secondary banking crisis of 1973-1975.

Despite the consistent influence of the Crown Agents' technical assistance in all these colonies, a remarkable diversity still prevailed.

He conducted inquiries into the collapse of the Crown Agents and the Munich air crash.

The Crown agents auctioned everything.

The property crash in late 1973 brought an end to the Crown Agents, and their debts were sold on at a fraction of the original price.

He had registered his name with the Crown Agents, and they sent him students, including Tunku.

A Short History of the Crown Agents and Their Office.

Material given by the Crown Agents from 1900 to 1922 is included in the Supplementary Collection.

After the war he returned to his post at the Crown Agents, later being promoted to Chief Engineer.

It quickly created a philatelic office and in 1971 chose an agent for sale in the rest of the world, the Crown Agents.

The archive consists of a range of philatelic and written material which were the Crown Agents' working records.

In a memorandum, the Crown Agents noted:

Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administration: London 1958.

Attempts by Crown agents to change the leases of the 55 tenants of small-holdings in the area led to protracted disputes.

Crown agents in the colonies employed him in Ceylon to design works to supply Colombo with water.

After his return he retired from the Treasury to become a director of the Crown Agents from 1991 to 1997 .

London: Crown Agents for the Colonies.

In due course, severe monetary penalties, extracted by Crown agents, pauperised sections of Cornwall for years to come.

After demanding an inquiry into under-employment, in late 1983 he called on the Government to abolish or privatise the Crown Agents.