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IOR/L/PS/18/B16
- Record Id:
- 040-000563129
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000562855
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000788.0x0003d7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023576007.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/18/B16
- Title:
- ‘Jeddah Consulate.—Captain Beyts’
- Scope & Content:
- Memorandum dated 23 April 1877, prepared by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary in the Political and Secret Department of the India Office. The memorandum was prepared in response to Government discussion over the merit of establishing a British consulate at Jeddah that was ‘free from any connection with private trade’, and court proceedings against the steamship Medina, chartered by the British Consul at Jeddah, George de Jong Beyts, in his capacity as the director of Beyts & Co., for the conveyance of pilgrims to Jeddah. The memorandum provides a précis of correspondence related to the subject of the Jeddah Consulate between 1852 and 1877.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000562855
037-000563103
040-000563129 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/18 : Political and Secret Department Memoranda
IOR/L/PS/18/B : Political and Secret Department Memoranda: Section B
IOR/L/PS/18/B16 : ‘Jeddah Consulate.—Captain Beyts’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0018]/036-000562855[0002]/037-000563103[0020]/040-000563129
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 file (5 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000788.0x0003d7
- Thumbnail:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1877
- End Date:
- 1877
- Date Range:
- 23 Apr 1877
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 121, and terminates at f 125, since it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in the bottom right-hand corner of the recto of each folio. These numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
- Former External References:
- B 16
- Arrangement:
-
The correspondence described in the memorandum is arranged into an approximate chronological order, from the first piece of correspondence mentioned, dating from 1852, to the last, dating from 1875-76. Correspondence referred to by the memorandum is listed in the inside margins.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Beyts, George Mathurin de Jong, 1821-1903?
British Legation to Saudi Arabia, 1930-1947
India Office, Assistant Secretary to the Political and Secret Department,, 1858-1930
Wylde Beyts and Company, c 1877-c 1887 - Subjects:
- Colonial administration
Embassies and consulates
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages - Places:
- Mecca, Sharifate of Mecca, Ottoman Hijaz
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- IOR/L/PS/3/223
