IOR/R/15/2/51

This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain and the British Political Resident at Bushire, as well as with the Comptroller of India Treasuries; Secretary and Treasurer of the Bank of Bombay; Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynymound, Viceroy and Governor General of India; and Sheikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, ruler of Qatar. These correspondence concern the appointment of the first Assistant Political Agent and Political Agents between 1900 and 1916, including:

• John Calcott Gaskin (February 1900 - October 1904)
• Francis Beville Prideaux (October 1904 - May 1909
• Charles Fraser Mackenzie (May 1909 - November 1910)
• Stuart George Knox (November 1910 - April 1911)
• David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer (April 1911 - November 1912)
• Arthur Prescott Trevor (November 1912 - May 1914)
• Terence Humphrey Keyes (May 1914 - March 1916)
• Hugh Stewart (March 1916 - June 1916)
• Trenchard Craven William Fowle (July 1916 - November 1916)
• Percy Gordon Loch (November 1916 - February 1918)

Contained within the correspondence are notifications of appointments, including the appointment of the first Assistant Political Agent in 1900 and copies of Charge Certificates signed by the outgoing and incoming Agents; details regarding designation of positions, including the raising of the post to Political Agent in 1905 and usage of the vernacular term al-balyūz; details concerning pay and allowances; specimens of signatures; examples of various 'Last Pay Certificate for Gazetted Officers Proceeding on Duty to Another Residency or Province or to Another Place in the Same Province'; and documentation regarding policy and regulations for admissions into the Political Department, including a notification entitled 'Rules regulating the admission of junior military officers to the Political Department of the Government of India' dated 31 August 1914.