File 31/14 Shaikh Ali bin Abdullah bin Isa Al Khalifa's assault on Father Anselm.
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The file contains correspondence about an assault on a priest by Shaikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Khalifah [Shaikh ‘Alī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Khalīfah] in 1949 following a traffic incident. Correspondents include the following: Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent, Bahrain; Reverend Father Anslem, Churc...
File 42/2 (6/2) C.C.L. De Grenier, Directors of Customs; G.W.R. Smith
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This file contains correspondence regarding Claud Cranbrook Lewis DeGrenier, Director of Customs in Bahrain (1924-1943). The correspondence is primarily between Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, and officials at the Political Agency in Bahrain. The correspondence concerns...
File no. 3/3 III Recoveries of amounts spent on behalf of HMS ships and miscellaneous correspondence
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The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Residency at Bushire, the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited and the Adviser to the Government at Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, regarding expenses for catering for Royal Navy ships, sport activities, activiti...
File 5/9 Grant of Civil and Criminal Powers to the A.P.A. Bahrain. Corr. re:-
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The file concerns the grant of civil and criminal powers to the Assistant Political Agent, Bahrain ['A.P.A. Bahrain' in the file title] for the area covered by the Bahrain Order in Council, 1913 (which included Qatar and the Trucial Coast). The initials 'I.A.' (standing for Indian Assistant, Bah...
File 6/5B Miscellaneous correspondence with His Highness the Shaikh of Bahrain and those allied to the royal family
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The file contains a letter of condolence from the Political Agent, Bahrain, Cornelius James Pelly, to Alawi bin Sayid Said for the death of his father, as well as the latter's reply of thanks. The file also contains letters from the Political Agent to Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifah [Salmān ...
File 6/16 Bahrain Assistant Adviser's (Capt L.S. Park) Account with Lloyds Bank Ltd, Bombay
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The file contains correspondence relating to a trust fund account held for the Assistant Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, Captain L S Parke. The correspondence is between the Political Agent in Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lloyds Bank, and the Eastern Bank (where the ...
File 6/52 Bahrain sailing boat smuggling goods out of or into Persia, chased by Persian Patrol-boat
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The file contains correspondence relating to the seizure of boats belonging to Bahrain subjects by Persian patrol boats. The correspondence is between representatives of the Bahrain Government, the Political Agency in Bahrain, and the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. The pape...
File 6/60 Deaths among the royal family; death of His Highness Shaikh Sir Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifah
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The file contains correspondence relating to the deaths of Shaikh Ibrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifah (in 1933), a senior member of the ruling Al Khalifah family, and Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah (in 1942), the ruler of Bahrain. The majority of the papers are letters and telegrams of condolence...
File 10/7 III Trade and Commerce. Registration of trademarks and protection of inventions in the Bahrain Island
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Correspondence relating to trade marks (there was no registration of trade marks in Bahrain at this period, but foreign trade mark rights applied). The file includes examples of flower basket match labels imported from Czechoslovakia by Abdul Rahman Noor Alfarsi, Bahrain, that were similar to flo...
‘File 15/5 I Rules & Regulations Rules & instructions for pilgrims to Hedjaz and other correspondence relating to Pilgrims’
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British officials in Bahrain and other Arab Gulf States received information at regular intervals about the regulations imposed on pilgrims travelling to the Hejaz, by the Saudi Arabian Government. This information enabled the British authorities to make the necessary administrative arrangements...
