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IOR/L/PS/10/996
- Record Id:
- 040-000546373
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x00037c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100081437277.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/996
- Title:
- File 2794/1921 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Oil - Bahrain (1933.)'
- Scope & Content:
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the development of an oil concession in Bahrain.
The discussion in the volume relates to the terms of Major Frank Holmes's residency in Bahrain and issues relating to finding his replacement. It contains correspondence between the Colonial Office and the solicitor of the Bahrein Petroleum Company Limited concerning the terms of the concession and its nationality clause. Also included in the volume is a copy of the translation of a letter dated 25 September 1933 from Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, Ruler of Bahrain, to Captain Everard Huddleston Gastrell, Political Agent, Bahrain.
The principal correspondents in the volume are: the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office; Petroleum Department (Frank Gregory Starling); solicitor for the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (Hamilton R Ballantyne); the Ruler of Bahrain (Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah); the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave); and the Chief Local Representative, the Bahrain Petroleum Company (Frank Holmes).
The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000546373 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/996 : File 2794/1921 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Oil - Bahrain (1933.)' - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0999]/040-000546373
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (481 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x00037c
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1933
- End Date:
- 1933
- Date Range:
- 27 Jul 1933-21 Nov 1933
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 477; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
- Former External References:
- P 2794/1921 Pt 6
- Arrangement:
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 2794 (Persian Gulf: Oil) consists of seventeen files and volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/989-1005. The files and volumes are divided into eighteen parts as follows: parts 1 and 2 comprise one volume; part 3 comprises the second volume; part 3A comprises the third volume; part 3B comprises the fourth volume; part 4 comprises the fifth volume; parts 5 and 5A comprise the sixth volume; part 6 comprises the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth files and volumes; parts 7, 8 and 9 comprise the eleventh volume; part 10 comprises the twelfth file; part 12 comprises the thirteenth file; part 14 comprises the fourteenth volume, part 15 comprises the fifteenth volume; part 16 comprises the sixteenth file; part 17 comprises the seventeenth volume. There are no parts 11 and 13.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)