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037-000242135 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Political Resident, Persian Gulf, 1822-1971

1. IOR/R/15/5/313-319

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/313-319
Title:
File 13: Foreigners
Scope & Content:
The sub-sub-series contains papers, mainly correspondence, of the Political Agency, Kuwait, relating to foreigners in Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. It includes files relating the following subjects: the American Mission and American missionaries in Kuwait (IOR/R/15/5/313 and IOR/R/15/5/314) forei...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1904-1949
Extent:
7 files (489 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/5/170-178

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/170-178
Title:
File 3: Kuwait/Iran Relations
Scope & Content:
The Kuwait/Iran relations sub-sub-series concerns Kuwait's and Britain's relations with Persia (also referred to as Iran in some of the correspondence). Three of the files relate to cases of Kuwaiti sailing boats being seized, and in some cases detained, by the Persian authorities. Other matter...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
1928-1949
Extent:
9 files and volumes (1308 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/5/305

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/305
Title:
‘File 7/7 Admission of Suits against the Ruling Chiefs’
Scope & Content:
The file consists largely of correspondence between the Kuwait Political Agent (Gordon Noel Jackson) and the Persian Gulf Political Resident (Sir William Rupert Hay). The subject matter is a dispute between Dr Akopiantz and the Shaikh of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ]; the former is clai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1949-23 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/5/312

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/312
Title:
File 10/1 A DOCUMENTS DESTROYED
Scope & Content:
This file is comprised of a list of intelligence summaries and diaries which, according to the file, were 'destroyed by fire in February 1941.' The file lists over thirty intelligence summaries, diaries and reports, ranging in date from 1928 to 1939, which appear to have been destroyed at the K...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1941-19 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/5/303

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/303
Title:
‘File 7/2 I Working of Kuwait in Council, 1949’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence respecting questions arising from the implementation of the Kuwait Order in Council; the main correspondents are the Kuwait Political Agent (Gordon Noel Jackson and Herbert George Jakins) and the Persian Gulf Political Resident (Sir William Rupert Hay). The sort ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1949-20 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/124

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/124
Title:
‘Saudi Trade Agent’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between the Political Agent at Kuwait (Major Maurice O’Connor Tandy), the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway), and officials at the India Office and Foreign Office in London, concerning a request from the King of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Sa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1945
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/125
Title:
‘Kuwait – Saudi Frontier.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between the Political Agent at Kuwait (Gordon Noel Jackson), the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay), and other British Government officials, concerning the status of Gurain [Al Qurayn], located in the neutral zone between Saudi Arabia an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1948-5 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (22 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/5/302

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/302
Title:
‘File 7/5 Appointment of Judicial Adviser to the Political Resident’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the appointment of a Judicial Assistant — Summer Hayes (also spelt Haines) — to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf for the purpose of providing relief to subordinate Political Agents in their judicial work. It also contains an incomplete copy (on folios 2-7) of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1948-14 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/5/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/300
Title:
‘File 7/3 Representations by Foreign Powers on behalf of their Subjects’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with representations made to the Kuwait Political Agency by foreign powers, requesting that the British investigate complaints made by their subjects against the ruling authorities of Kuwait; it should be noted that the nationality of complainants is sometimes disputed. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1934-21 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (94 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/307
Title:
File C 7/9 Repatriation of persons convicted in Agency Courts in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence sent primarily between the Kuwait Political Agent, the Persian Gulf Political Resident, and officials of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office. It is concerned with how deportations of prisoners from the Gulf States — under the Colonial Prisoners Removal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Sep 1949-30 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)