
taxes on knowledge (repeal of) 23 
telegraphs 37, 42, 47, 51 
Tennyson, Alfred Lord 67–8 
Thailand 42 
Timbs, John 12 
The Times of London 19 
Tocqueville, Alexis de 19, 49, 94–8,100, 113, 116–7; 
basic ideas 77–9; 
on history-writing 89, 116; 
influence on Colonial Society founders 3–4, 71, 81–3,87, 90,94, 109, 111, 113, 142 n35; 
method 80, 90; 
reputation in Great Britain 76–83 
transportation of convicts 55, 105, 108 
travel literature 76, 82 
Trollope, Anthony 23, 80, 129 n3 
 
undersea cables 38,42, 107 
United States of America 49–50,52, 58–60; 
British views on 26,41, 76–,89–90,92–3,97–8,112; 
Civil War 3, 26, 48, 50, 70–4,80, 92, 119; 
imperialism of 9, 26, 69, 85, 118; 
possible loyalties of Vancouver Island politicians 59; 
travel in 50 
universities 29–30 
 
Vancouver Island 52, 59–61,98 
Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood 38 
Verdon, George Federick 149 
Victoria (Australia) 46, 54,58, 63–4,107 
Victoria (Australia) officials, residents, and travellers 26, 36, 55, 63, 149 n32, 160 n58 
Victoria Institute 40 
Victoria (Queen) 45 
Victoria (Vancouver Island) 59–60 
 
Waddington, Alfred 59–60 
Waddington, William 58 
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon 48,96–8; 
and New Zealand 98; 
writings 96–8,104; 
see also Colonial Reform movement 
Walker, William 142 n26 
Ward, John M. 107 
Waterhouse, George Marsden 42 
Weld, Frederick Aloysius 24 
Wesleyanism 40,42, 53 
West Africa 68–9,112 
Western Australia 57 
West Indian officials and travellers 35, 63 
Index     211