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1. IOR/R/15/5/192

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/192
Title:
File 4/11 I Bank for Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the possibility of a foreign bank opening a branch in Kuwait. The two main candidates discussed in the file are Eastern Bank Limited and Ottoman Bank. Towards the end of the file, an expression of interest by al-Bank al-Arabi [Arab Bank] is also discus...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Jan 1935-4 Apr 1939
Extent:
1 file (247 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/5/193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/193
Title:
File 4/11 I Bank for Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the opening of an Imperial Bank of Iran branch in Kuwait in 1941/42 and the bank's first few years of operation in the country. The correspondence contained in the file consists of messages exchanged between British officials, representatives of the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1940-9 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (155 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/554-555

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/554-555
Title:
File 60: Financial
Scope & Content:
There are two surviving files in the ‘Financial’ subject category. The earlier file, which is a bound volume, contains correspondence about banking in Persia, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, particularly the rival operations of the Eastern Bank, the Imperial Bank of Persia (later the Imperial...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1918-1946
Extent:
2 files and volumes (205 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/364

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/364
Title:
File 9/16 Eastern Bank Ltd, Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence with the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) regarding banking in Bahrain by the Eastern Bank Limited, in particular transportation and insurance of notes from India to Bahrain.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1940-29 Jul 1946
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/18
Title:
File B/13 Eastern Bank
Scope & Content:
The letters, memoranda and other notes in the file relate to the establishment of a branch of the Eastern Bank in Bahrain. The main correspondents in the file are the Political Agent in Bahrain (chiefly Captain Percy Gordon Loch, who occupied the position from November 1916 to February 1918, and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1916-8 Jun 1921
Extent:
1 file (87 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1503

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1503
Title:
‘Miscellaneous 16/10 Eastern Bank Ltd: Correspondence with ––’
Scope & Content:
Routine correspondence exchanged between the Bahrain Political Agency and successive managers of the Eastern Bank Limited in Bahrain (H Barden, D Ham, M Gunn, C W F Skrimshire). Correspondence received from the Eastern Bank includes: notices of credits to the Agency current account; notices of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 May 1926-31 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (259 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1577

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1577
Title:
‘File 16/65 Correspondence with the Imperial Bank of Iran, Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence with the Imperial Bank of Iran, with which the Political Agency held a number of accounts, as listed on folio 2. The correspondence is of a routine nature: branch opening hours; the opening of a Dubai branch of the bank; the issue of bank drafts ‘at par’ (face value) for official ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1944-13 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/379

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/379
Title:
File 9/35 Eastern Bank Branch in Qatar
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agency at Bahrain, the Political Residency in the Gulf, the India Office and the Eastern Bank Limited concerning the opening of a branch of the Bank in Qatar in 1947. The file also contains some correspondence with Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1947-4 Sep 1950
Extent:
1 file (57 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1504

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1504
Title:
‘File 16/10 II Correspondence with Eastern Bank Ltd. Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, chiefly of a routine nature, exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Limited. The file’s principal correspondents are the Political Agent and representatives (usually the manager) of the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Limit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1940-16 Mar 1950
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/198
Title:
‘File T/8 C 62 Banks at Gulf Ports: Bahrain, Eastern Bank Ltd’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence concerning proposals for the opening of commercial banks to assist trade in the ports of the Arab coast of the Gulf, and in particular at Bahrain. The chief correspondent in the file is Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox, Political Resident in the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1911-19 Aug 1918
Extent:
1 volume (24 folios)