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11. IOR/R/15/1/746

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/746
Title:
Biographical Notes
Scope & Content:
The volume contains manuscript draft biographical notes on Persian statesmen and notables compiled by George Percy Churchill. Many of the notes are accompanied by imprints of the subject's seal and signature (in Persian); some by typescript pages, extracts from published works and newspaper cut...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
c 1904
Extent:
1 volume (302 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/1/747

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/747
Title:
Report on Najd Mission 1917-1918
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled Report on Najd Mission, 1917-1918 (Baghdad: Government Press, 1918). The report describes the mission headed by Harry St John Bridger Philby to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥman bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd)], ruler of Najd and Imam of the Wahahbi [Wahhabi] sec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

1 volume (28 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/2/138

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/138
Title:
File 9/11 Grant of Passports and Permits by the Bahrain Government and Treaty with Persia relative to withdrawal of claim to
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers related to Persia's withdrawal of claims to sovereignty over Bahrain. The majority of the file's correspondence takes place between the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, the Political Resident (Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Barrett until N...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1 May 1929-14 Jul 1930
Extent:
1 file (73 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/2/422

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/422
Title:
File 10/5 II Hasa oil: CASOC's activities in Hasa; development of Ras Tannura; Political Agent's visit to Hasa
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Political Resident at Bushire on the oil concession in Saudi Arabia, the activities of California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) in Hasa, Saudi Arabia, and the development of the port and the refinery at Ras ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1935-26 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 volume (326 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/2/440

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/440
Title:
File 10/14 [10/25] BAPCO'S WORKING OF ZELLAQ SALT DEPOSIT
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited, the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain on the rights for extracting salt from Zellaq, Bahrain, for the purpose of softening water. There is an index at the end of the volume (fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1945-22 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/2/927

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/927
Title:
‘File 4/3 (1.a/51) Propaganda’
Scope & Content:
The file contains exchanges of secret and confidential letters, memoranda and telegrams, mainly between Major Reginald George Evelyn William Alban and his successor Cornelius James Pelly (British Political Agents, Bahrain); Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior (Political Resident in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1940-23 Jul 1949
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/2/1402

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1402
Title:
‘File 13/5 A REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS IN IRAQ’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain and the Consular Section of the British Embassy, Baghdad. The correspondence concerns a request made by a Jewish resident in Bahrain, who was emigrating to the United State...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1948-8 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)