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Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R/15/5/30

1. IOR/R/15/5/30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/30
Title:
File 10/4 British relations with Ibn Sa`ud: Royal Navy support for Kuwait; proposal to send Sir Gilbert Clayton on mission to Ibn Sa`ud
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. Specifically, the correspondence relates to Ikhwan raids into Iraqi and Kuwaiti territory, Ibn Sa'ud's relations with Kuwait and Iraqi tribe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 May 1928-23 Jun 1928
Extent:
1 file (256 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/5/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/300
Title:
‘File 7/3 Representations by Foreign Powers on behalf of their Subjects’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with representations made to the Kuwait Political Agency by foreign powers, requesting that the British investigate complaints made by their subjects against the ruling authorities of Kuwait; it should be noted that the nationality of complainants is sometimes disputed. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1934-21 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (94 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/5/301

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/301
Title:
‘File 7/4 Registration of Companies under Art 69 of Kuwait Order-in-Council, 1949’
Scope & Content:
The file contains applications and supporting documentation from companies applying for registration with the Kuwait Political Agency, a requirement for companies subject to British jurisdiction under the Kuwait Order in Council. The companies in question are Cable and Wireless; the Eastern Oil ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1 Aug 1936-6 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (146 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/5/302

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/302
Title:
‘File 7/5 Appointment of Judicial Adviser to the Political Resident’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the appointment of a Judicial Assistant — Summer Hayes (also spelt Haines) — to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf for the purpose of providing relief to subordinate Political Agents in their judicial work. It also contains an incomplete copy (on folios 2-7) of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1948-14 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/5/303

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/303
Title:
‘File 7/2 I Working of Kuwait in Council, 1949’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence respecting questions arising from the implementation of the Kuwait Order in Council; the main correspondents are the Kuwait Political Agent (Gordon Noel Jackson and Herbert George Jakins) and the Persian Gulf Political Resident (Sir William Rupert Hay). The sort ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1949-20 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/304
Title:
‘File 7/3 Special Police Officers — Appointment’
Scope & Content:
The file contains two letters from F J McLintic, Chief Special Police Officer at Ahmadi, addressed to the Kuwait Political Agent. The letters concern the cancellation of Dudley Preston Lester's appointment as a Special Police Officer, and the appointment of Daniel Dudley Williams. The file contai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1949-15 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/305

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/305
Title:
‘File 7/7 Admission of Suits against the Ruling Chiefs’
Scope & Content:
The file consists largely of correspondence between the Kuwait Political Agent (Gordon Noel Jackson) and the Persian Gulf Political Resident (Sir William Rupert Hay). The subject matter is a dispute between Dr Akopiantz and the Shaikh of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ]; the former is clai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1949-23 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/5/306

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/306
Title:
‘File C 7/8 Serving of Writs on Americans’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a request sent to the Political Agency by Clifton P English, United States Consul at Basra, asking the Political Agent to serve a writ against Thomas Wallace, an employee of the Kuwait Oil Company. It also contains the Agent's (Herbert George Jakins) reply.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1949-21 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/5/307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/307
Title:
File C 7/9 Repatriation of persons convicted in Agency Courts in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence sent primarily between the Kuwait Political Agent, the Persian Gulf Political Resident, and officials of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office. It is concerned with how deportations of prisoners from the Gulf States — under the Colonial Prisoners Removal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Sep 1949-30 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/308-310

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/308-310
Title:
File 8 Smuggling
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1949
Extent:
3 files