‘Persian Gulf. Intention of the Imam of Muscat to obtain thro the British Government, the transfer from the control of the Persian Authorities to the guardianship of H. M’s Minister at Tehran, of those portions of the Shah’s dominions, rented by the Imam-’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Intention of the Imam of Muscat to obtain thro the British Government, the transfer from the control of the Persian Authorities to the guardianship of H. M’s Minister at Tehran, of those portions of the Shah’s dominions, rented by the Imam-’
- Date:
- 1847/1848
- Description:
- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 31 January 1848. A copy of this Political Letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2238/112322, alongside details of further enclosures. The item is the forty-ninth in a series of fifty-nine items on events in the Persian Gulf.The item relates to correspondence received by Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, from Shaik Syf bin Nubhan [Shaikh Sayf bin Nabhān al-Mu‘awali], Governor of Bunder Abass [Bandar-e ʻAbbas], dated 6 October 1847. The correspondence claims that the Queen [Victoria] has sanctioned a proposal by Syed Saed [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd], the Imam of Muscat, to transfer control of his rented territories in Persia [Iran] to Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Minister at the Court of Persia. The item contains the reactions of Hennell and the Government of Bombay to this claim, with the latter requesting further information from Captain Atkins Hamerton, HM Consul and Company Agent in the Dominions of the Imam of Muscat.Sheil is also referred to as HM Minister at the Court of Tehran and HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Tehran.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft No. 345/48, Coll: 2, Vol: 49’, ‘Collection No. 5 of No. 21’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 551, and terminates at f 556, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Property transfer
HM Ambassador to Iran
Āl Bū Sa'īd dynasty, Imam of Muscat and Oman - Geographic region:
- Persia
- Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098005141.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098005141.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2238/112370
IOR/F/4/2238/112370