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1. IOR/L/PS/5/401, ff 393-518

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/401, ff 393-518
Title:
Affairs in Aden
Scope & Content:
Enclosures nos. 3-46 to dispatch no. 110 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 31 December 1841. The enclosures are dated 30 October-28 December 1841. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Aden, including: A blockade of Shugra [Shuqrah] and the Fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1841
Extent:
1 item (126 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/466, ff 28-32

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/466, ff 28-32
Title:
Persia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consist of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 57 of 1850, dated 17 October 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-23 and are dated 10 January-2 October 1850. A note in red ink, dated 1 November 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Oct 1850
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/9/68/154

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/154
Title:
Copy of a Letter from HM Ministers to Persia, James Morier and Henry Ellis, in Tehraun, to the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, the Earl of Moira
Scope & Content:
Copy of a letter from HM Ministers to Persia [Iran], James Morier and Henry Ellis, in Tehraun [Tehran], to the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, the Earl of Moira, of 30 November 1814. In the letter, Morier and Ellis recommend that the Persian Secretary to the British Mission i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1814
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/533

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/533
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 3 ‘German War:- Turkey. Payments to British subjects in Turkish territory &c.’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning the advance of financial relief to British Indians stranded in Baghdad and elsewhere in Ottoman territory, in the wake of Britain’s invasion of Mesopotamia [Iraq] in November 1914. The papers cover: proposals for funds to be forwarded to and distributed by the United States Con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1922
Extent:

1 volume (218 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/108

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/108
Title:
PZ 2775/34 ‘Mrs Margaret Howson – Application for financial assistance towards maintenance and outfit of her son, WR Howson, King’s India cadet at Sandhurst’
Scope & Content:
The file contains mainly correspondence and notes by India Office officials, relating to the applications of Mrs Margaret Howson, widow of a former British Consul at Bandar Abbas who died in 1918, for the grant of additional financial assistance from the Government of India in the 1930s, on groun...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Apr 1934-27 May 1938
Extent:
1 file (65 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/127
Title:
PZ 701/1935 Question of Continuance of Pension of Naoum Abbo of Basra
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the issue of whether a pension paid from 1918 to 1923 to Mr Naoum Abbo of Basra, an Iraqi national, should be continued. The correspondence includes: Letters and copies of letters between the India Office and Mackrell, Ward and Knight, including a co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1935-6 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/216

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/216
Title:
PZ 8456/36 'Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah: particulars of writings, movements, etc. (Inc commutation of pension)'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the circumstances and arrangements for the pension of Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah and his request for it to be commuted and paid in a lump sum.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1936-29 May 1946
Extent:
1 file (61 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/290

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/290
Title:
PZ 3083/39 'Bahrain Petroleum Company Ltd. Booklets on 'Pound Sterling Thrift Plan' and 'US Dollar Thrift Plan'.'
Scope & Content:
This file contains two Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) booklets: 'The Pound Sterling Thrift Plan and Life Insurance Benefit Plan' and 'The US Dollar Thrift Plan and Life Insurance Benefit Plan' (both effective from 1 July 1939), as well as an 'Addendum to Trust Agreement and Rules of T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1939-18 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/297

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/297
Title:
PZ 4592/39 'Sardar Haider Quli Khan: application for increased pension'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to a request to increase the pension paid to Sardar Haider Quli Khan by the Government of India. In 1939, the HBM Consul in Kermanshah, John Francis Robert Vaughan Russell, forwarded a letter from Khan to the Accountant General, Central Revenues (Sidney ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1939-28 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/1295

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1295
Title:
Ext 166/48 'Defence Services Officers' Provident Fund'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a request by the Political Resident, Persian Gulf, for information on the Savings Scheme provided for officers in the British Army, in order to compare it to the Defence Services Officers’ Provident Fund offered by the Government of India. The file also contains a cover letter f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1948-27 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)