Colonial Despatches

In an enclosure to this despatch, Charles Francis Adams notifies Lord John Russell of Allen Francis’s appointment as American consul in Victoria.1

Adams was born 18 August 1807 to the American president John Quincy Adams.2 He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1841 to 1843, and a member of the state senate from 1844 to 1845. In 1861, he was appointed Minister to England by President Lincoln, which he served until 1868. He died in Boston, Mass., on 21 November 1886.3

• 1. Hammond to Rogers, 16 December 1861, 11285, CO 305/18, p. 115.
• 2. The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica,Charles Francis Adams, Encyclopædia Britannica.
• 3. United States Government,Adams, Charles Francis, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.