Copy of a Letter from Major-General Sir William Grant Keir, aboard HMS Liverpooloff Sharga, to HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Copy of a Letter from Major-General Sir William Grant Keir, aboard HMS Liverpooloff Sharga, to HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock
- Date:
- 1820/1820
- Description:
- Abstract: Copy of a letter from Major-General Sir William Grant Keir, aboard HMS Liverpooloff Sharga [Sharjah], to HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, of 2 February 1820. The letter originally enclosed:Copy of Captain Francis Augustus Collier’s instructions to Captain Lock (Captain Francis Erskine Loch) of 3 January 1820 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/246)Copy of Captain Lock’s dispatch to Captain Collier of 26 January 1820 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/248)Copy of a paper by the Shaik of Bahrein [Shaikh of Bahrain], Abdulla bin Ahmed [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Aḥmad Āl Khalīfah] (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/247)Copy of Keir’s letter to Captain Collier of 1 February 1820 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/249).The letter also details the ongoing British expedition against the Joasmees [al-Qawāsim] and their allies, including:Keir’s orders to Captain Lock to attack the vessels of Rahma Bin Jauber [Shaikh Raḥmah bin Jābir al-Jalhamī] in retaliation for an attack on a Persian vesselThe Shaik of Bahrein’s agreement not to harbour vessels from the ‘Piratical Ports’Keir’s having advised the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat against his proposed attack on Bahrein.The letter was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 13 March 1820 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/244), which was received on 13 July 1820.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Letter
- Type (Narrower):
- Letters
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Raḥmah bin Jābir Āl Jalāhimah
- Geographic region:
- Bahrein
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100038378586.0x000184_ar
81055/vdc_100038378586.0x000184_en
IOR/L/PS/9/68/245
IOR/L/PS/9/68/245