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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name British Consul, Bandar Abbas, 19th century-1952 Digitised Content Platform Qatar Digital Library

1. IOR/L/PS/10/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/23
Title:
File 351/1904 'Persian Gulf:- Erection of British flagstaffs at Musandam’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the erection (and subsequent abandonment) of flagstaffs at the head of the Persian Gulf, on the Maklab [Maqlab] Isthmus at Musandam (Musandam spelt with numerous variations throughout the file), Telegraph Island [Jazīrat al Maqlab]...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1902-1908
Extent:

1 volume (221 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/38

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/38
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Henjam affairs. Status of Henjam (Persian sovereignty). Persian Customs post. Henjam Telegraph Station dispute’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence, papers and maps relating to the British Government’s telegraph station and the Persian Government’s customs house on the island of Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], questions of Persian sovereignty over the island, and the status of the island’s Arab inhabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1906
Extent:
1 volume (250 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/39
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: telegraphs. Henjam-Bunder Abbas-cable’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises notes, memoranda, copies of correspondence and other papers, relating to an agreement reached between the British and Persian Governments for the construction of a telegraph cable line between the telegraph station at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1909
Extent:

1 volume (235 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1006

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1006
Title:
File 3122/1921 Pt 1-2 'Persia: Quarantine'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts discussing quarantine services in southern Persia: part 1 concerns the appointment of a medical officer at Bandar Abbas part 2 concerns quarantine services more generally on the Persian side of the Persian Gulf The volume comprises parts 1 and 2 of 2. Each part inc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1921-1931
Extent:
1 volume (629 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/108

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/108
Title:
PZ 2775/34 ‘Mrs Margaret Howson – Application for financial assistance towards maintenance and outfit of her son, WR Howson, King’s India cadet at Sandhurst’
Scope & Content:
The file contains mainly correspondence and notes by India Office officials, relating to the applications of Mrs Margaret Howson, widow of a former British Consul at Bandar Abbas who died in 1918, for the grant of additional financial assistance from the Government of India in the 1930s, on groun...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Apr 1934-27 May 1938
Extent:
1 file (65 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3468

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3468
Title:
Coll 28/61 ‘Persia. Trade Reports. Bundar Abbas & Lingah, 1925/6–’
Scope & Content:
Printed copies of annual trade and commerce reports for the Persian port of Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], compiled by HM’s Consul at Bunder Abbas (George Alexander Richardson, Cecil Henning Lincoln). The file includes reports for the years 1925-26, 1926-27, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1930-32, 1932-33, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1928-26 May 1936
Extent:
1 file (121 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3535

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3535
Title:
Coll 28/121 ‘Persia. Bandar Abbas Consulate Diaries.’
Scope & Content:
Fortnightly consular diaries (monthly from February 1946) submitted by HM Consul at Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], Persia [Iran], covering the period March 1943 to October 1946. No diaries for the period November 1945 to January 1946 are included in the file. The diaries, which are organised un...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1943-12 Feb 1947
Extent:
1 file (216 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/554

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/554
Title:
File 60/20 I (C 93) Imperial Bank of Iran: Bahrain, etc
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to banking in Persia, Saudi Arabia, and the Persian Gulf. The majority of the correspondence is between the British Ministry in Tehran, the Government of India, High Commissioner in Iraq (later the British Ambassador), Political Residency in Bushire, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Jan 1918-Feb 1946
Extent:
1 volume (201 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/771

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/771
Title:
‘File 29/18 vol I TEA FOR THE RESIDENCY BUSHIRE, ESSENTIAL FIRMS BUSHIRE, AND THE CONSULATES AT KHORRAMSHAHR, KERMAN AND BANDAR ABBAS’
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about Indian tea and sugar exports to Bahrain under the quota system and the export licensing restrictions imposed by the Government of India during the Second World War (1939-1945), when essential food commodities were in short supply. The file contains the corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1944-31 Aug 1948
Extent:
1 file (244 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/6/504

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/504
Title:
‘Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1904-1905’
Scope & Content:
Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Residency and Maskat [Muscat] Political Agency for 1904-1905, published by the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India (Calcutta). The report is divided into a number of parts: 1. General Summary, prepared by Major Percy Zachariah Co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
1 volume (89 folios)