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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Eastern Bank Limited, 1909-1971

1. IOR/R/15/2/342-387

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/342-387
Title:
File 9 Trade and Commerce
Scope & Content:
The forty-six volumes and files forming the 'Trade and Commerce' subject files were produced by the Confidential Office at the Political Agency in Bahrain. Most of the files and volumes date from 1928-1950. The 'Trade and Commerce' subject files mainly contain correspondence between the Polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1928-1950
Extent:
46 files and volumes (4028 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1908

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1908
Title:
File No. E/16 V. O. Correspondence Regarding Mortgages.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding mortgages in Bahrain, including a request from the Eastern Bank for information about the legal value of a deposit of title deeds. In turn, the Political Agency explains that the deposit of title deeds of immoveable property accompanied by a mortgage de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Jul 1932-20 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 file (32 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1956

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1956
Title:
File J/39 'Protest of Bills'
Scope & Content:
This file contains a series of requests by various banks in Iran and their branches in Bahrain on legal action due to non-payment of funds by individuals to the Political Agent in Bahrain. It also includes responses by the Political Agent and forms legally acknowledging non payment.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1947-14 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (60 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1529

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1529
Title:
‘File 16/31 Miscellaneous. Eastern Bank New Building– – Correspondence regarding:’
Scope & Content:
Two pieces of demi-official correspondence, the first from H Bardon, Manager of The Eastern Bank Limited, Bahrain, dated 30 July 1931, and addressed to the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior). The letter, along with Prior’s reply which is also dated 30 July 1931, relates t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jul 1931
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/18
Title:
File B/13 Eastern Bank
Scope & Content:
The letters, memoranda and other notes in the file relate to the establishment of a branch of the Eastern Bank in Bahrain. The main correspondents in the file are the Political Agent in Bahrain (chiefly Captain Percy Gordon Loch, who occupied the position from November 1916 to February 1918, and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1916-8 Jun 1921
Extent:
1 file (87 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1503

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1503
Title:
‘Miscellaneous 16/10 Eastern Bank Ltd: Correspondence with ––’
Scope & Content:
Routine correspondence exchanged between the Bahrain Political Agency and successive managers of the Eastern Bank Limited in Bahrain (H Barden, D Ham, M Gunn, C W F Skrimshire). Correspondence received from the Eastern Bank includes: notices of credits to the Agency current account; notices of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 May 1926-31 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (259 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/231

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/231
Title:
File 6/7 Mahandal Mekta [Mohanlal Mehta], ex-BI Agent at Dubai
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the appointment of Mehta, who had previously acted as Agent for British India Steam Navigation (BISN) at Dibai [Dubai], to a position in the Hamalbashi Branch of the Customs at Shargah [Sharjah], responsible for the collection of customs revenue, and ensuring the correct quant...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1932-8 Feb 1933
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1574

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1574
Title:
‘File No. 16/62 Shortage of meat and vegetables etc supplies in the Bazzar’
Scope & Content:
A single piece of correspondence, a letter from D Ham, Manager of the Bahrain branch of Eastern Bank Limited, to the Political Agent at Bahrain, dated 14 August 1944 (folio 2). Ham writes that his staff complain of having been unable to obtain meat in the bazaar for a fortnight, and asks if essen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1944-20 Aug 1944
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1504

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1504
Title:
‘File 16/10 II Correspondence with Eastern Bank Ltd. Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, chiefly of a routine nature, exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Limited. The file’s principal correspondents are the Political Agent and representatives (usually the manager) of the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Limit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1940-16 Mar 1950
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/198
Title:
‘File T/8 C 62 Banks at Gulf Ports: Bahrain, Eastern Bank Ltd’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence concerning proposals for the opening of commercial banks to assist trade in the ports of the Arab coast of the Gulf, and in particular at Bahrain. The chief correspondent in the file is Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox, Political Resident in the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1911-19 Aug 1918
Extent:
1 volume (24 folios)