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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Political Agent and Consul, Muscat, 1861-1971

1. IOR/R/15/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6
Title:
Political Agency, Muscat
Scope & Content:
Record keeping in the Muscat Agency seems always to have been chaotic, and it is clear that gaps in the archives are the result more of loss and indiscriminate destruction than of a conscious selection policy. The Political Agent’s Court records have not survived. Much of the arrangement has had ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1951
Extent:
540 files and volumes

2. IOR/R/15/2/630-632

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/630-632
Title:
File 23 Muscat
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses: recruitment of a teacher for a school in Muscat; issues involved in the purchase or lease of Masirah Island to the British Government as a permanent base;different Arabic titles by which the Sultan of Muscat liked to be referred and how this contrasted with the titles ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1944
Extent:
3 files (35 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/626 (Sub-sub-series)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/626 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:
File 23 Muscat
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between Lt-Colonel Gordon Loch, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Major Claude Edward Bremner, Political Agent Muscat, concerning the Muscat State Council.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/919

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/919
Title:
File No. 1/7 RECESS CORRESPONDENCE
Scope & Content:
Correspondence from the Political Agent at Bahrain regarding periods of time spent on recess away from Bahrain. Information contained within the correspondence includes itineraries, forwarding addresses, details of cyphers and codes taken on recess, and details of intended conversations with ind...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1937-24 Aug 1946
Extent:
1 file (83 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1281

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1281
Title:
File 6/62 Ruined mosques in Bahrain, correspondence regarding
Scope & Content:
The file contains the following: a letter from Major Claude Edward Bremner, Political Agent, Muscat, to Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent, Bahrain, in which he reports the poor state of many of the town's mosques and enquires about any procedure of repair or removal that may ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1933-28 Jan 1934
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/553

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/553
Title:
File 59/15 C (A 15) Muscat Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and other papers on a range of political subjects, chiefly communicated by the Political Agent at Muscat (Percy Cox until 1904; Major William Grey thereafter) to the Political Residency. The file begins with correspondence related to the Sultan of Muscat's new...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1903-27 May 1909
Extent:
1 file (250 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1555

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1555
Title:
‘File 16/45 Case of certain thefts from the Political Agency, Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, statements and other papers relating to incidents of theft occurring at the Political Agency: in June 1933, the theft of money from drawers in an Agency office (ff 2-9); in March 1934, another incident of money stolen from Agency cash boxes (ff 10-11); in August 1937, an incident...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
10 Jun 1933-25 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (29 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/5/79

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/79
Title:
File 27/4 Miscellaneous Trade Reports
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the trade reports of various British agencies and consulates in the Persian Gulf. The first folio of the volume contains a list of contents that is not entirely accurate. The volume does begin with a report entitled 'Report on the Trade of Oman, Bahrein [sic], and Arab Por...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1904-11 Jan 1933
Extent:
1 volume (347 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/625

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/625
Title:
(F 69) File 82/26 A.P.O.C. - Muscat Oil Concession
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, telegrams and notes of meetings between the Political Agent at Muscat and the Political Resident at Bahrain and Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives regarding geologic surveys of Dhofar, Massirah and Batinah, Muskat, in Oman, and Gwadar, in Pakista...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Sep 1925-20 May 1928
Extent:
1 file (77 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/102

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/102
Title:
File 12/C I
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the following main topics: Dissatisfaction with Shaikh Salim [Shaikh Sālim al-Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Kuwait, 1918. A proposal to establish British detachment in Kuwait, 1918. A note (ff 34-38) on ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Mar 1918-7 Apr 1920
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)