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1. IOR/R/15/2/59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/59
Title:
File V/7 Christian Cemetery at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain; the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; the British Political Agent at Kuwait; Samuel Marinus Zwemer of the Arabian Mission; the Foreign Department of the Government of India; and Shaikh ‘Īsá...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Feb 1901-7 Oct 1920
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/59-61

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/59-61
Title:
File 5 British Protection
Scope & Content:
This Confidential subject file contains papers related to British protection in Bahrain. Covered in these files are the establishment of a Christian cemetery in Manamah in 1901 and its upkeep; Bahraini shipping vessels and the Tangistan blockade in 1916; and the issue of a young Iraqi Jewish woma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1901-1920
Extent:
3 files (154 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/590

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/590
Title:
‘19/3 HER EXCELLENCY LADY WILLINGDON’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, circulars and other papers relating to visits by the Viceroy and Governor-General of India (the Marquis of Willingdon, Major Freeman Freeman-Thomas) and his wife Lady Willingdon (Marie Freeman-Thomas) to Bahrain and Sharjah in May 1934, while travelling by Imper...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1933-7 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 file (167 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/591

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/591
Title:
‘Visit of Her Excellency Lady Willingdon’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns visits made by Marie Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon (referred to as Lady Willingdon), wife of Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Marquess of Willingdon, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, to Bahrain and Sharjah on stopovers in June 1933. The file contains correspondence bet...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 May 1933-12 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/592

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/592
Title:
‘19/4 LADY DOROTHY MILLS AND OTHERS’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns a proposed and actual visits to the Persian Gulf by the writer Lady Dorothy Mills to countries in the Middle East in 1932 for the purpose of collecting suitable material for her literary work, with permission granted to her to travel to Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait, but not the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1932-3 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/593

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/593
Title:
‘19/5 SHUNKICHI NOMURA - JAPANESE OIL BROKER’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns a Japanese oil broker named Shunkichi Nomura; his intention to travel from Kabul to Iraq; the possibility he may be acting for the Japanese Government; and his eventual abandonment of plans to travel to Iraq. The file contains correspondence between Captain Everard Huddleston G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Aug 1933-25 Aug 1933
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/594

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/594
Title:
'19/6 MRS. HOWARD CHITTER'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to the attempted visit to Bahrain and Kuwait by Winifred Howard-Clitty, a writer of children’s books, in the winter of 1933/34. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1933-3 May 1934
Extent:
1 file (70 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/595

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/595
Title:
‘19/8 PRINCE AHMAD TAWHID AND JAMAL PASHA’
Scope & Content:
This file contains one letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent at Bahrain, to Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, dated 1 November 1931. The letter concerns the visit to Bahrain in 1931 of His Highness Prince Ahma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1931
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/596

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/596
Title:
‘19/9 Mlle. CORBIAU’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns finding a temporary home in Bahrain for a female Belgian artist named Mademoiselle Corbiau who wishes to visit there to earn money by painting portraits. The correspondents in the file include: Ernest Vincent Packer, Petroleum Concession Limited, Bahrain; Cornelius James Pelly,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jul 1945-19 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/597

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/597
Title:
‘19/10 VISITS OF FOREIGN NOTABILITIES TO BAHRAIN’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and papers relating to visits to the Persian Gulf by foreign dignitaries. Correspondents in the file include the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Agents at Bahrain and Kuwait. The file includes: correspondence relating to the visit to B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1935-30 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)