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181. IOR/R/15/2/1984

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1984
Title:
‘Office Orders. Vol.1 (Closed)’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises orders made by the Political Agent at Bahrain, pertaining to the administration of the Agency, and in some cases to the administration of the Victoria Memorial Hospital. Orders are numbered, dated, and signed by the Political Agent. The volume includes: orders registering t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1900-11 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 volume (132 folios)

182. IOR/R/15/2/1985

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1985
Title:
‘Office Orders II’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises orders made by the Political Agent at Bahrain, pertaining to the administration of the Agency, and in some cases to the administration of the Victoria Memorial Hospital. The file is a direct chronological continuation of the file ‘Office Orders. Vol.1 (Closed)’ (IOR/R/15/2/1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1937-21 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 volume (184 folios)

183. IOR/R/15/5/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/1
Title:
‘I/1 First Appointment of a Pol: Agent to Koweit, (Capt S. G. Knox).’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence sent and letter received by the Political Agent at Kuwait (Captain Stuart George Knox): a letter from Knox describing his arrival in Kuwait, the Ruler of Kuwait’s [Shaikh Mubarak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] response to his arrival, accommodation and food offered by the Shaikh, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1904-30 Mar 1908
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

184. IOR/R/15/5/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/2
Title:
‘I/10. Confidential papers re Agency staff.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers, including confidential notes, relating to staff at the Political Agency in Kuwait (including the News Agent, Assistant Surgeon, and Head Clerk). Many of the papers relate to the recruitment, departure, and transfer of staff between British offices in the Persian Gulf, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Sep 1904-14 Nov 1928
Extent:
1 file (215 folios)

185. IOR/R/15/5/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/3
Title:
‘Establishment. No. I/12 Appointments and Changes in the Political Residents & Agents in the Persian Gulf, and Secretaries, Bushire, & of the Govt. of India. and Others.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the departure (either permanently or on temporary leave) of current, and the arrival of new incumbents, to the post of Political Resident and Consulate General in the Persian Gulf. The file includes: circulars issued by the Political Resident to Political Agents and Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1913-10 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (189 folios)

186. IOR/R/15/5/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/4
Title:
‘No. I/34. Launch establishment’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning employees of the Kuwait Political Agency motor launch. The bulk of the file’s correspondence concerns Cyril Bayer, Inspector in general charge of the launch, and relates to his role, his failing health, subsequent retirement to India, financial provision for him in reti...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1926-23 Sep 1944
Extent:
1 file (105 folios)

187. IOR/R/15/5/10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/10
Title:
BUILDINGS. No. 4/13 I Correspondence regarding Surgeon's quarters.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, estimates and receipts relating to the accommodation for the Medical Officer of the Political Agency at Kuwait. The discussion in the volume relates to the leasing, maintenance and state of repair of housing for the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1924-11 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 volume (255 folios)

188. IOR/R/15/5/11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/11
Title:
KUWAIT OFFICE RECORDS. BUILDINGS. No. 4/15 - Vol. I. New Agency Building at Kuwait.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of the translation of the agreement between the Political Agent, Kuwait and Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah, Ruler of Kuwait concerning a lease of a building for the agency. Also included in the file is a Government of India Public Works Document tender and contract document for...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1929
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

189. IOR/R/15/5/61

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/61
Title:
File XXII/5 Distinctive Flag for Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises hand written letters, notes, typed correspondence and printed reports relating to the proposed adoption of a distinctive Kuwait flag and certificates of nationality for marine craft belonging to Shaikh Mobarak [Shaikh Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] or his subjects. Further disc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1906-24 Nov 1924
Extent:
1 volume (57 folios)

190. IOR/R/15/5/96

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/96
Title:
'1/C III. Miscellaneous.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to a large number of miscellaneous topics: The discussion in the volume relates to the following topics: Expulsion of Hafidh Wahba from Bahrain, 1922. Proposals to reduce Gulf establishment, 1922. Rumours...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1921-2 Jan 1924
Extent:
1 volume (313 folios)