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1. IOR/L/PS/12/98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/98
Title:
PZ 1084/34 'Supply of Secret & Confidential Publications to the Air Ministry Who's who of the N.W.F. Tribes'
Scope & Content:
The file contains printed copies of the bi-annual Addenda and Corrigenda to Who’s Who in the North-West Frontier Province, for the years 1934 to 1937. This biographical compilation is one of several confidential and secret Government of India intelligence publications made available to serving of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1934-30 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (107 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3451

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3451
Title:
Coll 28/46 ‘Persia. Who’s Who, and Leading Personalities in:’
Scope & Content:
Printed copies of reports entitled Biographies of Leading Personalities in Persia (also referred to in the file as Who’s Who in Persia, and Report on Personalities in Persia). The reports were compiled by officials at the British Legation in Tehran, and updated periodically. The file contains co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1929-7 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (174 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/20/224

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/224
Title:
Biographies of the notables of Fars and certain Persian officials who have served at Shiraz. Delhi: Government of India, 1925
Scope & Content:
The volume contains lists of, and genealogical tables and biographies for, the notable families of Fars [Fārs] and Persian Officials at Shiraz [Shīrāz]. The volume includes a 'Sketch Map of Boundaries of Districts of Fars', found in a pocket at the rear of the volume (folio 53).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925
Extent:

1 volume (52 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/20/227

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/227
Title:
‘BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF PERSIAN STATESMEN AND NOTABLES, SEPTEMBER 1909’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains biographical notices on ‘important members of the Persian [Iranian] Government, principal members of the clergy, and the notables of all classes, as well as a number of minor officials and persons of a lesser degree’. Genealogical information for some families has been includ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910
Extent:

1 volume (74 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/20/E75/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E75/1
Title:
'LIST OF LEADING OFFICIALS, NOBLES AND PERSONAGES IN THE ADEN PROTECTORATE.'
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled ‘List of Leading Officials, Nobles and Personages in the Aden Protectorate’. A stamp on the front cover indicates that this copy of the publication was enclosed in letter no. 33M from the Foreign Secretary of the Government of India to the Secretary of State for ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 volume (14 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/186

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/186
Title:
25 File 624 Biographical histories of noteworthy persons; information collected from officials at Muscat, Makran Coast, Gwadar
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a collection of biographies of 'noteworthy persons' within the political jurisdiction of the Residency in the Persian Gulf. There is some limited correspondence related to the collection of this information, which includes applications made by Edward Charles Ross, Political R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
Sep 1852-May 1884
Extent:
1 volume (430 folios)

7. Mss Eur F112/400

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/400
Title:
‘PERSIA. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, NOTABLES, MERCHANTS, AND CLERGY, COMPILED BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL H. PICOT, Military Attaché at Teheran.’
Scope & Content:
Printed collection of biographical notices, as well as comments on élite dynasties and tribes of Persia [Iran], written over a period of twelve months and completed in December 1897 by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot (Military Attaché, Teheran [Tehran]), then Acting Oriental Secretary in H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1897-8 Jul 1898
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)