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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Political Agent, Doha, 1948-1971 Digitised Content Platform Qatar Digital Library

1. IOR/R/15/2/466

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/466
Title:
'Negotiations with Ibn Saud regarding Boundaries of Saudi Arabia'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns Saudi Arabian boundary negotiations between 1949 and 1950 and specifically concerns boundaries with Qatar (folios 2-3 and 6-12), Buraimi [al-Buraymī] (folios 4-5 and 16-19) and the Trucial Coast (folios 14-15). The file contains correspondence between Herbert George Jakins, Cor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1949-23 Aug 1950
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/780

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/780
Title:
‘File 29/21 - IV FOOD SUPPLY RICE'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about British efforts to obtain supplies of rice for local consumption in the Persian Gulf shaikhdoms, particularly Bahrain, Qatar and the shaikhdoms of the Trucial Coast, in the years after the Second World War (1939-1945). British and Bahrain Government officia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1949-21 Nov 1950
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1048

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1048
Title:
File 1/55 Personal File of Political Officer, Qatar, Doha
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the appointment and service of the first Political Officer in Qatar, Arthur John Wilton, and his successors as Political Officer up to October 1950. The papers, which consist of correspondence and telegrams, cover the following topics: note on establishment of Political Age...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Aug 1949-1 Oct 1950
Extent:
1 file (50 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1166
Title:
File 4/60 Mission Fund.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns expenditure by the Political Agency. Bahrain (and the British Agencies at Qatar and Sharjah) on 'ceremonial' expenses (official entertainment) chargeable to the Agency's Mission Fund. The file includes correspondence from the Political Agent, Bahrain (Cornelius James Pelly); t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1950-2 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1989

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1989
Title:
‘Accounts’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises papers concerning the finances of the Political Office in Doha, Qatar. The papers chiefly concern the second quarter of 1950, but extend to December 1950 and up until March 1951. Most of the papers were prepared by the Political Officer at Doha, Arthur John Wilton. The first ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1950-3 Apr 1951
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)