Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the principal shipping agents at Bahrain: the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited, and Gray, Mackenzie & Company Limited. The correspondence is routine, and relates to the exchange of bills of lading and redemption of let...
‘File 16/35 Miscellaneous. Removal of corpses from Bahrain for re-burial at Karbala and other places.’
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Correspondence and other papers, including death and cremation certifications, relating to the removal of cremated and uncremated human remains at Bahrain, to other places. The principal correspondents in the file include: the Political Agent at Bahrain; representatives of the Government of Bahr...
‘File 16/36 Miscellaneous. Certificates for Animal casings and other articles exported from Bahrain – Countersigned by P.A.’
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Correspondence and papers relating to the export of animal casings from Bahrain. An exchange of correspondence in 1932 between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior) and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) refers to the question of autho...
‘File 16/37 Miscellaneous. Monthly reports of locust occurrences in Bahrain– Submission of–’
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Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to the occurrence of locust swarms on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf. The file chiefly comprises copies of monthly reports of locust occurrences at Bahrain and on the Trucial Coast, submitted by the Political Agency in Bahrain, at the request...
Reports and papers relating to the occurrence of locust swarms on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf. The file chiefly comprises copies of monthly reports of locust occurrences at Bahrain and on the Trucial Coast, submitted by the Political Agency in Bahrain, at the request of the Imperial Counc...
Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to efforts, undertaken by representatives of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit (MEALU), to control desert locusts (first reported in western India in August 1942 (f 3)) along the Arab coast between Bahrain and Oman. The principal correspondents in...
Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to locust-control campaigns taking place on the Arabian peninsula and in southern Persia [Iran] between May 1943 and September 1944. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘File 16/37A-I Anti-Locust Measures’ (IOR/R/15/2/1544). The pr...
Notes and instructions written by staff at the Political Agency, including the Political Agent (abbreviated through the file as ‘P.A.’), Assistant Political Agent (‘A.P.A.’) and Head Clerk (‘H.C.’). The notes concern the internal administration of the Agency, including building maintenance, offi...
‘File 16/39 Miscellaneous. Visit to Bahrain of Rev. J. V. Westlake, Chaplain of the Church of England. & other chaplains. Appointment of a Church of England Minister, Bahrain’
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Correspondence and other papers relating to the visits to Bahrain of representatives of: the Church of England at Basra (Reverend J V Westlake; Reverend F W Bowyer); the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem (Bishop George Francis Graham Brown); the Church of Scotland (Reverend James Hume); and the Lati...
‘File 16/40 Horses belonging to the Political Agent Bahrain –Correspondence ref:’
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Correspondence and file notes relating to horses (a young mare and filly) given as a gift to the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior) by the King of Nejd and Hejaz, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] in 1930. The correspondence concerns: Prior’s...
