The Consular District of Rhodes: Charles Thomas Newton and the Levant Consuls

Until 1850, the Aegean islands had been under the jurisdiction of the consulate at Smyrna, however, in that year, the Ottoman subdivision of the area was altered with the appointment of a governor general based in Rhodes. This change of local administration provided the Foreign Office with the opportunity to create a new consular district, centred in Rhodes and covering the islands of Patmos, Kos, Kassos, Kastelorizo, Symi, Samothraki, Imbros, Thassos, Tenedos and Limnos, with vice consulates at Cyprus, Lesvos and Chios.