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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Biographies Place Persia, Asia

1. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/11/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/11/3
Title:
Who's Who in Persia (Volume II)
Scope & Content:
The first edition of Who's Who in Persia (Volume II), compiled by the General Staff, India, comprises a biographical dictionary of individuals, families, and tribes connected with Persia in 1923. At the front of the volume (ff 4-7) it includes lists of: foreign representatives in Tehran; Persia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923
Extent:
1 volume (223 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/11/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/11/4
Title:
Corrections and Additions to Who's Who in Persia Vol. II
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of corrections and additions to the biographical dictionary of individuals, families, and tribes given in Who's Who in Persia (Volume II), compiled by the General Staff, India, from 1923. Published by the Manager, Government of India Press, Simla, 1924.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924
Extent:
1 volume (12 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/20/227

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/227
Title:
‘BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF PERSIAN STATESMEN AND NOTABLES, SEPTEMBER 1909’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains biographical notices on ‘important members of the Persian [Iranian] Government, principal members of the clergy, and the notables of all classes, as well as a number of minor officials and persons of a lesser degree’. Genealogical information for some families has been includ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910
Extent:

1 volume (74 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/20/231B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/231B
Title:
'WHO'S WHO IN PERSIA'
Scope & Content:
The volume is entitled ‘Who’s Who in Persia’, and is a British intelligence report, compiled in 1916 by the General Staff of the British Indian Army and subsequently reprinted with corrections in 1918. The report was printed by Superintendent Government Printing, India, based in Calcutta [Kolkat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918-1927
Extent:

1 volume (145 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/20/C137/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C137/1
Title:
'WHO'S WHO IN PERSIA'
Scope & Content:
An official publication entitled Who’s Who in Persia [Iran] produced by the General Staff, India. At the start of the publication is a list of ministers who had served in the Cabinet of the Government of Persia from the coronation of Sultan Ahmed Shah [Aḥmad Shāh Qājār] on 21 July 1914 to Janua...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

1 volume (101 folios)

6. Mss Eur F112/400

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/400
Title:
‘PERSIA. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, NOTABLES, MERCHANTS, AND CLERGY, COMPILED BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL H. PICOT, Military Attaché at Teheran.’
Scope & Content:
Printed collection of biographical notices, as well as comments on élite dynasties and tribes of Persia [Iran], written over a period of twelve months and completed in December 1897 by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot (Military Attaché, Teheran [Tehran]), then Acting Oriental Secretary in H...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1897-8 Jul 1898
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)