'Copy of an Official Note from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires to His Excellency The Sudr Aazim and the other Ministers of His Persian Majesty'
Date:
1820/1820
Description:
Abstract: Copy of an official note from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to the Sudr Aazim [Ṣadr-i Aʿẓam, Prime Minister] and the other ministers of the Court of the Shah of Persia, of 13 February 1820. The letter concerns the murder and robbery of Captain Grant and Cornet Fotheringham on the Ottoman-Persian frontier in 1810. Willock indicates that he has learned that the individual responsible, Kelb Ali Khan Feili [Kalb Ali Khan Feyli], is employed as a governor by the Prince-Governor of Kermanshah, Mahomed Ali Mirza [Mohammed Ali Mirza Dowlatshah], and demands that he be punished for the murders.The letter was enclosed in Willock’s letter to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of 14 February 1820 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/229).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)