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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name British Agent and Consul General, Jeddah, 1919-1930

1. IOR/L/PS/10/1165

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1165
Title:
File 87/1926 Pt 1-2 'ARABIA: RELATIONS WITH IBN SAUD'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject 'Arabia: Relations with Ibn Saud'. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/1165/1) concerns the recognition of Ibn Saud as king of Hedjaz. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/1165/2) concerns the revision of the treaty on the relations between HM Government and Arabia. Each part ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1925-1928
Extent:
1 volume (577 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1127/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1127/3
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 9 ‘Arabia:- Nejd - Hedjaz hostilities 1924-25. Wahabi massacres at Taif 1924. Compensation for British subjects for losses sustained through Taif atrocities.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and reports relating to the massacre of the inhabitants of Taif during the Wahabi [Wahhabi] invasion of the city in September 1924. The papers specifically concern claims for compensation made by British subjects in Taif during the massacres. They include a number of eyewitness acc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1926-15 Jun 1926
Extent:
1 item (42 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1167
Title:
File 351/1926 ‘Arabia: Nejd: Employment of British airmen by Ibn Saud Hejazi Air Force’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, mainly Foreign Office despatches received from Jedda, relating to the creation of the Hejaz Air Force by Ibn Saud, with the assistance of the British Government and British air personnel. The main correspondents are the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Gove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1926-18 Jul 1931
Extent:

1 volume (700 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1166
Title:
File 87/1926 Pt 3-4 'Arabia: IBN SAUD TREATY NEGOTIATIONS'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 3 and 4 of the subject 'Ibn Saud: Treaty Negotiations'. A related volume (IOR/L/PS/10/1165) contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject, under its former name 'Arabia: Relations with Ibn Saud'. Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/1166/1) concerns the treaty negotiations with Ibn Saud, who ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Jun 1926-27 Nov 1930
Extent:
1 volume (519 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1125/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1125/1
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 2 ‘Arabia:- situation 1924. H.M.Govt’s policy of complete neutrality regarding the future of the Holy Cities. Question of the recruitment of troops in the Aden Protectorate on behalf of the Emir Ali.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the British Government’s policy of neutrality in response to the invasion of the Hejaz by Wahabi [Wahhabi] troops under the rule of the Sultan of Najd, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. The correspondence covers: responses to the invasion ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1924-26 May 1925
Extent:

1 item (57 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/1126

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1126
Title:
File 3665/1924 Pt 5 ‘Arabia:- Situation 1925; Hedjaz-Nejd hostilities’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the invasion of the Hejaz region of Arabia by Wahabi [Wahhabi] troops under the Sultan of Najd, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. The papers cover: the Wahabi attack on Jeddah, and a blockade of the coast to the south of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925
Extent:

1 volume (400 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/1115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1115
Title:
File 1707/1924 ‘Arabia:- Jeddah Situation Reports. (1924-1930)’
Scope & Content:
The volume mostly contains printed copies of despatches from HM Agent and Consul, Jeddah, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, enclosing reports on the situation in the Hejaz (also spelled Hedjaz in the file) [now a region of Saudi Arabia], from January 1924 to December 1930, and relat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Mar 1924-18 Mar 1931
Extent:

1 volume (445 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2095

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2095
Title:
Coll 6/29 'Hejaz-Nejd: Haramain Waqfs.'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the establishment of what is referred to in the file as the Auqāf al Harameyn Claims Association, created for the purpose of claiming auqāf (or awqāf, plural of waqf) on behalf of the Harameyn (the two sanctuaries of Mecca and Medina, also transliterated as Haramayn, Haramei...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Dec 1927-15 Nov 1935
Extent:
1 file (223 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2113
Title:
Coll 6/46 'Salutes in Hejaz Nejd.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns personal salutes given by British naval ships to dignitaries in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). The correspondence, largely between officials of the Admiralty and the Foreign Office, begins with discussion about the number of gun salutes that should be...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1928-5 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/740/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/740/2
Title:
File 1647/1918 Pt 2 'Arabia: Hedjaz; Hostel for pilgrims at Mecca; British Representative at Mecca'
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence and other papers regarding events after the postponement of plans for a hostel at Mecca to house pilgrims from the British Empire and a British Muslim Representative at Mecca to look after the interests of such pilgrims. The papers are primarily concerned with th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1920-14 Aug 1923
Extent:
1 item (77 folios)