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The West India Committee, later also known as The Committee to the West Indies was an English charity formed out of an organisation established in 1775 as a lobby group for British-based merchants and absentee plantation owners with business interests in the Caribbean and which later became a group promoting Caribbean businesses to the world's major markets. ==History== The principal commodities were cane sugar, rum, mahogany, other softwood, spices and tropical produce, early on largely confined to types which would last a long transatlantic voyage such as coffee, nuts and desiccated coconut but later expanded to include tropical fruits in general. In 1904, the committee received a (royal) charter of incorporation at the initiative of the British government. It later acquired charitable status and established two subsidiary bodies: *The Caribbean Council for Europe (CCE) *The Caribbean Trade Advisory Group (Caritag).〔West India Committee: Official Archives, 1899-1998〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charity number 258545 )〕 Among its records are for example eight collections of Caribbean and English newspapers 1761-1846, reports of the Acting Committee to the Half-Yearly Meeting of the Standing Committee of West India Planters and Merchants, 1878-1883 and albums of photographs and press cuttings on the 1907 earthquake in Jamaica, a country that was a major subject of its promotion work. From at least 1915 - 1929〔 its Secretary was Sir Algernon Edward Aspinall who in the name of his committee published geographical guides to Guyana and the British Caribbean, such as a 1907 Stanford's Guide: ''Pocket Guide to the West Indies'' and ''The handbook of the British West Indies, British Guiana and British Honduras'' (1929). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「West India Committee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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