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1821. IOR/R/15/1/360

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/360
Title:
File 19/194 (C 36) Proposal that Political Agent, Bahrain, should be Consul at Qatif
Scope & Content:
A file that records details of a proposal to appoint the Political Agent in Bahrain as Consul in Qatif. The idea is not approved by the Government of India or Whitehall, primarily due to fears that such a move would provoke Bin Saud to make a counter-request for a Consul of his own to be appoint...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1927-30 Jul 1930
Extent:
1 volume (41 folios)

1822. IOR/R/15/1/503

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/503
Title:
File 53/23 (D 12) Murder on Sheikh Mubarak's Fao Estates by Turks
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the murder of a man and woman on property in Fao [The Al Faw Peninsula in Iraq] owned by Shaikh Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ, the ruler of Kuwait. Mulla Muhammad (also written as Moola Mahomet in the file), Shaikh Mubārak 's agent in Fao, is reported to have fou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Oct 1904-13 Feb 1905
Extent:
1 volume (80 folios)

1823. IOR/R/15/1/523

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/523
Title:
File 53/57 II (D 52) Boundary dispute between Bin Saud and Shaikh of Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the deliniation of the Kuwait-Najd frontier. The file contains a translation of a letter from the ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ to James Carmichael More, the British Political Agent in Kuwait that thanks the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1922-27 Jul 1923
Extent:
1 volume (34 folios)

1824. IOR/R/15/1/530

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/530
Title:
File 53/80 I (D 82) Ownership of Shaikh of Kuwait's Date Gardens in Iraq
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding date gardens in southern Iraq owned by the ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ. The correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's decision to end the immunity from taxation (on the gardens) that had been granted...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Sep 1932-9 May 1933
Extent:
1 volume (236 folios)

1825. IOR/R/15/1/552

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/552
Title:
File 59/15 B (A 14) Muscat: slave trade under cover of French flag
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence and other papers relating to competing British and French interests in Muscat and Oman at the beginning of the twentieth century. The principal point of contention between British officials, represented by Percy Cox (Muscat Political Agent 1899-1903), was the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Jan 1902-21 Mar 1904
Extent:
1 volume (163 folios)

1826. IOR/R/15/1/752-757

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/752-757
Title:
Correspondence in Arabic and English between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire and the Residency Agent on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah
Scope & Content:
This file mainly contains letters and instructions sent from the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf to the Residency Agent on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah in the years 1883-1914, 1921, 1924-1927 and 1930, as well as a ledger book of drafts of letters sent from the Residency Agent to the Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1883-1930
Extent:

6 files (1206 folios)

1827. IOR/R/15/2/212

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/212
Title:
File 5/2 I Movements in the Gulf of H.M.'s Ships
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain; the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire and later at Bahrain; various Senior Naval Officers in the Persian Gulf, including Captain V S Butler, Captain Allan Poland, Captain Cosmo Moray Graham,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Nov 1935-08 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (248 folios)

1828. IOR/R/15/2/272

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/272
Title:
‘File 7/5 A Customs duties on R.A.F. stores’
Scope & Content:
The file’s correspondence concerns an agreement to exempt customs duty on imports (particularly of oil and petrol) to the Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Muharraq in Bahrain. The key correspondents in the file are the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman, from October 1937 to October 1940, M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1938-8 Nov 1942
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

1829. IOR/R/15/2/280

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/280
Title:
‘File 7/14 I R.A.F. wards in Bahrain Govt. hospital’
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in the file relates to a request for new arrangements in the allocation of wards at the Bahrain Government Hospital. In March 1945 Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, formally made a request to the Political Agent at Bahrain that the one or both of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1945-8 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

1830. IOR/R/15/2/331

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/331
Title:
'File 8/37 Note by H.M.'s Consul, Bandar Abbas, on Jask Mutineers'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the movements of Dr Habib, an Iranian Government employee and resident of Lar, and based on a note by the British Consul at Bandar Abbas, Reginald Michael Hadow. The correspondence is between the following: Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 May 1945-12 Jun 1945
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

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