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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Name Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, 1926-1957

41. IOR/R/15/2/517

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/517
Title:
‘File 13/7 III AVIATION. Civil Aerodromes, terms of Agreement etc.’
Scope & Content:
The volume, which is a continuation of ‘File 13/7 II Civil Aerodromes and Civil Air Agreement–Bahrain’ (IOR/R/15/2/516) contains correspondence and other papers related to the extension of the Bahrain Civil Air Agreement, the ongoing development of civil aviation facilities at Bahrain, and the t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Jul 1936-22 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 volume (302 folios)

42. IOR/R/15/2/542

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/542
Title:
File 14/9 Employment of Italians in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the employment of Italians in Bahrain. The file covers two separate cases. The first case concerns the employment of painter and draughtsman, Rino Gardeschi (sometimes spelled Gardeski), in the decoration of the Roman Catholic Church in Manama and mo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1948-21 Jul 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

43. IOR/R/15/2/552

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/552
Title:
File 16/2 B.I.S.N. STEAMERS CALLING AT SHARJAH
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence which discusses two matters. Firstly, issues around the granting of exclusive rights to the British India Steam Navigation company to use Sharjah as a Port of call and how to deal with any requests from Soviet and Japanese shipping. Correspondents include Lieute...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1933-5 Apr 1945
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

44. IOR/R/15/2/557

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/557
Title:
File No. 17/1-I Posts and Telegraphs. Bahrain Radio Station.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Percy Gordon Loch), the Officer-in-Charge of the Bahrain Branch of Cable and Wireless Limited (Cecil Bottomley), the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), the Shaikh of Bahrain (Ḥamad bin ‘Īs...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1932-8 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 volume (245 folios)

45. IOR/R/15/2/558

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/558
Title:
File 17/1-II Posts and Telegraphs. Radio Station Bahrain.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman, Reginald George Alban, Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, Tom Hickinbotham), Political Resident in Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Charles Geoffrey Prior), Officer-in-Charge of the Bahrain Branch of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1938-1 May 1944
Extent:
1 volume (330 folios)

46. IOR/R/15/2/607

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/607
Title:
‘QATAR. PUNITIVE ACTION AGAINST QATAR – INAUGURATION OF RATIONING ETC. ACTION AGAINST DARWISH BROTHERS’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the lifting of travel restrictions imposed in 1944 by the British authorities in the Gulf on three members of the Darwish family from Qatar – Jasim bin Darwish, Abdulla bin Darwish and Abdur-Rahman bin Darwish. Correspondents in the file include the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1946-20 Aug 1946
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)

47. IOR/R/15/2/612

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/612
Title:
Effects of Zubara [al-Zubārah] dispute on Imports into Qatar from Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file concerns an enquiry by Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, Ruler of Bahrain, through Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government, regarding whether motor agents to whom dollar credits are given are free to sell their cars to anybody who wishes to buy them, including ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1947-10 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

48. IOR/R/15/2/627

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/627
Title:
File 23/2 Deportation of Omani Darwishes.
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the activities of certain Omanis in Bahrain (particularly three named men), who had 'set up as pseudo-religious leaders' and had encouraged practices characteristic of 'so-called Darwishes' [dervishes] (f 3), and the reaction to their presence in the state by the Government o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1947-4 Mar 1947
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

49. IOR/R/15/2/633

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/633
Title:
‘File 24/1 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS RE: PASSPORT CONTROL’
Scope & Content:
The file contains the correspondence of the Political Agent, Bahrain, mainly with other British agency, consular and passport authorities in the Persian Gulf and India and also with the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (representing the Bahrain passport authorities). The correspondence conce...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Jan 1934-20 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (255 folios)

50. IOR/R/15/2/645-650

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/645-650
Title:
File 27 Etiquette
Scope & Content:
The Etiquette files of the Political Agency, Bahrain, contain files from the 1930s and 1940s concerning: gun salutes for British officials and members of the various Arab ruling families in the Gulf; social etiquette (such as terms of address, relative seniority of British officials and seating ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1949
Extent:
6 files (564 folios)