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Several articles (including HMAS Australia (1911), Naval Service Bill, and Australian White Ensign) refer to a 1909 Imperial Conference. Highlights of the conference include the proposal of naval "fleet units" that Britain wanted the Dominions to buy: they would be operated by the Dominions in peacetime, but be merged together under Royal Navy control in the event of war. The conference was also one of the stepping stones in the creation of the Australian and Canadian navies as (relatively) independent organisations, instead of 100% integrated subunits of the British Royal Navy. Can anyone shed some light on if this was an Imperial Conference not included in the article, of if it was a different beast altogether? Thanks in advance. -- saberwyn03:33, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The chair of the 1887 conference held in London (ie the first Colonial Conference) is listed here as Robert Gascoyne-Cecil. As Lord Salisbury, he was indeed Prime Minister in 1887 so assumed that this was likely to be correct. However the article 1887 Colonial Conference has in its infobox that Sir Henry Thurstan Holland, the then Secretary of State for the Colonies, was the chair of the conference, and this claim is repeated elsewhere in that article. The next two conferences held in London (1897 & 1902) were chaired by Joseph Chamberlain who was the then Secretary of State for the Colonies, which would lead me to to suspect that Holland might well have been the chairman in 1887. the confusion might be that Lord Salisbury gave the opening address at the 1887 conference. While I am leaning towards changing the entry for chair here to Holland, does anyone have a source which would confirm the issue either way? Dunarc (talk) 21:36, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
