IOR/R/15/2/109

This file contains copies of correspondence between the Clive Kirkpatrick Daly, British Political Agent at Bahrain; Arthur Prescott Trevor, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; James Carmichael More, British Political Agent at Kuwait; Denys de Saumarez Bray, Secretary of the Foreign Department of the Government of India; ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd); and Sir Percy Cox, High Commissioner for Iraq at Baghdad.

These correspondence concern the personality and activities of Dr Alex Mann, a temporary medical officer in the Iraq Government. Within these correspondence are details concerning how he established himself as Ibn Sa‘ūd's London Agent and worked with Major Frank Holmes to secure an oil concession with Ibn Sa‘ūd, and later in Persia as a representative of the Phoenix Oil and Transport Company to acquire oil rights around Dāmghān and Sāmān.