‘BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF PERSIAN STATESMEN AND NOTABLES, SEPTEMBER 1909’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF PERSIAN STATESMEN AND NOTABLES, SEPTEMBER 1909’
- Creator:
- Author: Oriental Secretary to the British Legation
- Date:
- 1910/1910
- Description:
- Abstract: The volume contains biographical notices on ‘important members of the Persian [Iranian] Government, principal members of the clergy, and the notables of all classes, as well as a number of minor officials and persons of a lesser degree’. Genealogical information for some families has been included in the form of family trees: the genealogical tables of the Royal Qājār House can be found on folios 73-74.The notices were compiled by George Percy Churchill, Oriental Secretary to HM Legation, Tehran. It updates, corrects, and enlarges a volume compiled by the author in August 1909.On the front cover, and folio 3, it bears a stamp reading ‘General Staff Library. War Office. 14 Dec 1910’.Published in Calcutta by the Superintendent Government Printing, India (1910).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 76; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Biographies
Government of Persia, Qajar dynasty - Geographic region:
- Persia
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000912.0x000095_ar
81055/vdc_100000000912.0x000095_en
IOR/L/PS/20/227
IOR/L/PS/20/227