  a crown colony, also known in the 17th century as royal colony, was a type of colonial administration of the english and later british empire.u.s. library of congress - glossary of terms.compact oxford english dictionary - "crown colony". crown, or royal, colonies were ruled by a governor appointed by the monarch. by the middle of the 19th century, the sovereign appointed royal governors on the advice of the secretary of state for the colonies.jenks, p. 70. under the name of "royal colony", the first of what would later become known as crown colonies was the english colony of virginia in the present-day united states, after the crown, in 1624, revoked the royal charter it had granted to the virginia company, taking over direct administration.porter, p. 477. until the mid-19th century, the term "crown colony" was primarily used to refer to those colonies that had been acquired through wars, such as trinidad and tobagohistory of parliament: parliament of trinidad and tobago - parliament of trinidad and tobago. and british guiana, but after that time it was more broadly applied to any colony other than the presidencies and provinces of british india and the colonies of settlement, such as the canadas, newfoundland, british columbia, new south wales, queensland, south australia, tasmania, victoria, western australia, and new zealand, later to become the dominions.olson, p. 343. the term continued to be used up until 1981, when the british nationality act 1981 reclassified the remaining british colonies as "british dependent territories". from 2002 they have been known as british overseas territories. the current crown dependencies were never considered crown colonies; the form of government is constitutional monarchy, and the islands voluntarily cooperate with the government of the united kingdom in certain areas. sovereignty of the isle of man was purchased, and the channel islands are the remnants of the duchy of normandy. ==types== there were three types of crown colony as of 1918, with differing degrees of autonomy: crown colonies with representative councils such as bermuda, jamaica, ceylon, british columbia, newfoundland and fiji contained one or two legislative chambers, consisting of c
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