'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎1577] (1732/1782)

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and represented that, if his own proposals were accepted, the addition of an
Assistant to the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. staff would certainly be required. But he
did not base the suggestion exclusively on the increase of work which
might be expected to attend the alteration of the Oudh Bequest arrange
ments, as will appear from the following extracts from one of his letters :
The only second commissioned officer we row have is the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Surgeon. As
it happens, Brigade-Surgeon Bowman is not without experience of civil charges, and
his readiness to help in non-professional work deserves the fullest recognition. But
his successor may not be equally qualified for the performance from time to time of
political, consular, judicial, treasury, duties ; and in any case the charge of an important
Kesidency, or even the assisting of the Resident in his daily duties and correspondence,
does not form properly part of a Medical Officer's role, especially when, as is hero now
and usually the case, that Medical Officer practices his profession equally in Russian,
French and Osmanli circles.
Firstly, there are general grounds. Russia is fast projecting her shadow over
the Tigris and Euphrates. In May of last year she re-established a Consulate here after
it had been in abeyance for three years. The other day a young gentleman of the same
nationality and social status as the Consul, fresh from the Oriental ^ oll eg e '
St, Petersburg, which has made him a good Persian linguist to start with, auive a
Baghdad as Secretary or Assistant. Two Frenchmen similarly officer the Consulate ot
France and yet the subjects of the latter Consulate at Baghdad and Mosul fall short,
I believe, of a hundred; while the stream of pilgrims from newly made Russian
provinces, if now beginning, is only just beginning to flow towards Karbala and Najai.
On the other hand, the British Resident with a clientele (English, German, Greek,
Afghan, Indian) counted by thousands ; with as many calls on him from the side of
Europe as of India, and with the seaport of Bnssorah for an outpost; has no one
except an over -occupied medical officer to confide in; no one to assist him m his
secondary duties so that he may engage the more in cultivating and extending ioug
intercourse with all classes that personal influence on which so much ts here dependen .
most serious of all; no one to whom he can fittingly entrust the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. with all
its multifarious responsibilities and contingencies, on his moving out were it but
Karbala or Bussorah.
Later however. Colonel Tweedie allowed that, until a serious increase
in work connected with the Ondh Bequest or in the tonring duties of the
Resident occurred, the question o£ adding an Assistant to the Resrdency
might be suffered to remain in suspense ; and it apparently dropped tor
the time being. „ a
In November 1904 Major Newmarch, then Resident, represented
difficulty he experienced in drawing up trade reports and disposing of
the consular work of the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , besides performing the more
important political duties which occupied most of his time. The resu
of his application was the appointment to Baghdad in 1905 of an
Assistant to the Resident for Trade and Commerce, whose salary
was debited in equal moieties to the Government of India and to His
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1904i-1905.