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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name British Bank of Iran and the Middle East, 1889-1952

1. IOR/L/PS/10/605

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/605
Title:
File 2884/1916 Persia Tehran Legation Expenses
Scope & Content:
This bound volume contains expense accounts, receipts and correspondence for the British Legation in Tehran, Persia. The volume contains numerous receipts by the Imperial Bank of Persia as the crediting bank for the legation, and to which payments are made by the India Office for expenses incurre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1929
Extent:
1 volume (336 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/603

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/603
Title:
File 2200/1916 'Persia - Currency in the South; Minting of Krans in India'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the production and circulation of currency in Iran. It also contains a limited amount of correspondence that was exchanged between the India Office and the Imperial Bank of Persia on the same topic. In addition to correspond...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 file (194 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3965A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3965A
Title:
Coll 30/221 'Banking facilities in Bahrein and Saudi-Arabia.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns proposals by various commercial banks for the extension of banking facilities in the Persian Gulf. The file particularly relates to Saudi Arabia, Bahrein [Bahrain], Dubai, Muscat and Oman, and Qatar. The India Office were keen to ensure that banking in the Persian Gulf remained...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1944-16 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (162 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/220

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/220
Title:
File 472/1912 'Loans to Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipetentiary to Persia (Sir George Head Barclay, and Sir Walter Beaupre Townley), the British Ambassador to Russia (Sir George William Buchanan), the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey) and r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Jan 1912-7 Jan 1913
Extent:
1 volume (170 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/C120b

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C120b
Title:
'Second Memorandum as to Persian Government Loans'
Scope & Content:
This memorandum is a continuation of a previous memorandum dated 17 October 1910 (see IOR/L/PS/18/C120a). The memorandum summarises a number of major loans made by the British to the Persian Government from 1910-1912: this therefore includes summaries of the following: the Persian Government 5%...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1912
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/921

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/921
Title:
File 5924/1920 Pt 2-3 ‘PERSIA: FINANCE’
Scope & Content:
This volume primarily contains correspondence, telegrams, memoranda and reports regarding the financial affairs of the Government of Persia [Iran]. The volume is formed of two parts: ‘Financial Situation. Persian debt to H.M. Govt’ (IOR/L/PS/10/921/1) ‘Debt to H.M.G. Private claims against Pers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
24 Nov 1923-24 Nov 1932
Extent:
1 volume (532 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/C120a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C120a
Title:
'Memorandum as to Persian Government Loans'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum outlines a number of loans and advances made to the Persian Government by Britain and Russia respectively at the turn of the twentieth century; this includes information on the securities pledged by Persia to meet repayments. It also covers British concerns over the definition of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Oct 1910
Extent:

1 file (21 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3398B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3398B
Title:
Coll 28/4 ‘Persia – Imperial Bank of. Charter etc’
Scope & Content:
Papers and correspondence dated 1949, relating to a petition to amend the charter of the Imperial Bank of Iran, submitted to the Treasury of the British Government by the solicitors Coward, Chance & Company. The amendments to the charter include a change of name, from Imperial Bank of Iran to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1949-6 May 1949
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/9
Title:
File 2410/1903 Pt 2 'Persia:- Financial Situation. Loans.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, telegrams, despatches, notes and memoranda relating to financial loans made by the Governments of Great Britain and Russia to the Government of Persia from 1901 to 1905; and potential loans to be made during 1906 and 1907. The volume discusses the failure o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Dec 1905-12 Feb 1908
Extent:

1 volume (527 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/10
Title:
File 2410/1903 Pt 3 'Persia:- Financial Situation. Loans.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, memoranda, notes and reports on the financial situation in Persia and the possibility of a joint Anglo-Russian loan to the Persian Government. The terms of the joint loan, including financial reforms which would have to be undertaken by the Persia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Jul 1907-3 Jul 1910
Extent:

1 volume (605 folios)