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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Debts Name Foreign Office, 1782-1968

1. 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)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1242
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 11 'Arabia: Iraq-Nejd Frontier Affairs: Ibn Saud's Request for Arms etc, Saudi Debts to H.M.G.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply of arms and ammunition to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] and Nejd, by the Government of India in 1929, to enable him to suppress potential trouble with the Ajman tribe. The papers go on to record the attempts...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 May 1929-9 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (485 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2088

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2088
Title:
Coll 6/21(2) 'Saudi Arabia: Relations with H.M.G.: Saudi Legation in London and British Minister in Jeddah. Prolongation of Treaty of Jedda.'
Scope & Content:
This file, like the previous volume (IOR/L/PS/12/2087), concerns relations between the British Government and the Government of Saudi Arabia. The file largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, mainly between His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, Sir Reader William...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1935-12 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (379 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3419

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3419
Title:
Coll 28/22 ’Persia; Relations with H.M.G. Persian Debt to H.M.G.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the Persian Government’s desire, signalled in June 1931, to pay off in full a pre-war interest-bearing debt owed to Britain, totalling £490,000. Correspondence is chiefly exchanged between the Foreign Office (Charles William Baxter, George William Rendel), the India Off...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Jun 1931-1 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (191 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/C216

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C216
Title:
The Persian Debt to the Government of India and His Majesty's Government.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a memorandum describing the historical background to the Persian debt to the Government of India and to the British Government. The memorandum records a number of proposals for debt relief put forward by the Government of India, the Foreign Office and the Chancellor, made o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1929
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/6/236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/236
Title:
File 8/54 Muscat State Affairs: Affairs of members of ruling family
Scope & Content:
This file concerns members of the ruling family of Muscat. Most of the file relates to the financial affairs of Dhiyab bin Fahad [Dhiyab bin Fahad bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd], a cousin of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd]. The correspondence begins with a request from Dhiya...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
25 Apr 1941-29 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (132 folios)