Ionian Islands Passport 1856

The United States of the Ionian Islands was a state and Protectorate of the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1864.

It was the successor state of the Septinsular Republic. It covered the territory of the Ionian Islands, located in modern Greece, to whom it was ceded as a gift of the United Kingdom to the newly crowned King George I at the end of the Protectorate. Ionian islands passport

On 29 March 1864, representatives of the United Kingdom, Greece, France, and Russia signed the Treaty of London, pledging the transfer of sovereignty to Greece upon ratification; this was meant to bolster the reign of the newly installed King George I of the Hellenes. Thus, on 28 May, the Ionian Islands were united with Greece by the proclamation of the Lord High Commissioner.Ionian islands passport

ionian islands passport — A passport issued in the name of Sir John Young Bart, issued to F H Joyce Esq, a British subject, “to pass freely from this island of Cephalonia going to Liverpool,” signed by the local police chief.

Sir John Young Bart

was earlier the 12th Governor of New South Wales and, from 1869-1872, the second Governor-General of Canada. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Lisgar of Lisgar and Bailieborough in the County of Cavan on 26 October 1870. YOUNG, Sir John, Baron LISGAR, born in the presidency of Bombay, British India, 31 August 1807; died in Ireland, 6 October 1876.

His father, Sir William Young, Bart., was the East India company director. In his childhood, the son left India for England and graduated from Oxford in 1829. He studied law and, in 1834, was called to the bar of commons as a conservative from 1831 to 1855; from 1841 to 1844 was a lord of the treasury and, during the next two years, secretary of the treasury.

From 1852 to 1855, Sir John Young was sent to Ireland as a chief secretary during the Earl of Aberdeen’s premiership. In 1855, he was transferred to the Ionian islands as lord high commissioner.

This rare passport was at an auction, and I missed grabbing it by just a few bucks. What a pity! Congratulations to the seller and buyer, who got a scarce piece for his passport collection. Ionian islands passport

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