IOR/R/15/2/185

This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain; the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; Charles Mylles, Anglo-Persian Oil Company at Abadan; R Holmes, Assistant Surgeon, Victoria Memorial Hospital; R I Hallows; C R Latimer; Secretary to the Government of Bombay; Captain C A R Shillington, Naval Officer in Charge, Bahrain; Naval Officer in Charge, Basra; Royal Air Force, Sharjah; Political Officer in the Trucial Coast at Sharjah; and T P Tandy.

These correspondence concern the creation of the post of Assistant Political Agent in 1935 and those who held the position until 1945, including: Meredith Worth; George Ashmead Cole; Roy Douglas Metcalfe; Tom Hickinbotham; John Baron Howes; Arnold Crashaw Galloway; Richard Ernest Bird; R I Hallows; Gordon Noel Jackson; Michael Gray Dixon; Reginald Michael Hadow; T E Rogers; and Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy.

Included within these papers are correspondence relating to setting up of the post of Assistant Political Agent as a temporary position as a result of the increase work load due to oil concession and the Imperial Airways air route (ff 1-11); subsequent correspondence extending the appointment for periods of six months (ff 15-16, 32); correspondence reiterating the importance of the post and requesting it to be made on permanent (ff 17-21, 37-42, 261-264); correspondence relating to appointments to the post; correspondence related to post holders wishing to take war employment during the Second World War (ff 161-170, 196-198); and correspondence relating to the Assistant Political Agent's role in the Bahrain judicial system (ff 243-246).