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Coll 29/42 'Diplomatic and consular expenditure: contribution (from Indian revenues) towards cost of a British Chaplain at Tehran; Christian cemeteries in Persia and the Persian Gulf' [17r] (32/704)
The record is made up of 1 file (349 folios). It was created in 8 Aug 1917-5 Sep 1939. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Enclosure to Shiraz despatch No* 8 of 18th March, 193 9
Extract from the minutes of the Shiraz Cemetery
Meeting of March 11 th 1959*
104* Mr. King stated that on February 2Lst he visited the old
Armenian Cemetery at Bagh—i—Takht with a German Professor,
Herr Dr. Hinz, who was interested in the grave of Freiherr von
Minutoli, the first Prussian Minister to Persia. Dr. Hinz
wished to embellish the tomb and to obtain the co-operation of
the British colony in putting up the fourth wall. Mr. King
found that of the 25 gravestones with English inscriptions
which had been there when the cemetery was last inspected in
1935 by Mr. Gamble, only five remained, that the three walls
although solidly built apd already large holes at the base
on the north side and were under-mined by a water course on
the west side, and thet the cemetery as a whole appeared to
be used as a public latrine for the barracks. It further
appeared from the Consular records that the three walls had
been erected in 1928 out of funds provided by the foreign
colonies and thot the Armenian community who had undertaken
to put up the fourth wall had failed to do so in spite
of reminders reiterated over a number of years. Moreover
in 1934 the municipality had registered the cemetery as V/aqf
property and the Armenians had allowed the period of 3 months
in which opposition could be made to lapse without protest.
On December 8 th 1934 His Majesty’s Consul wrote to the
Governor General requesting that the cemetery should be
respected but no reply had been received, although the head
of the Armenian community had been assured by the Rais-i-
Baladieh on March 30th 1935 that the sale of the property
would be postponed and that no decision ,ould be taken without
his being notified. In view of the foregoing Mr. King had
informed Dr. Hinz that he saw no possibility of raising
further funds for the preservation of a cemetery which at any
moment might be swept away by the military authorities and
had suggested that the remaining foreign gravestones, including
that/
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The file concerns Diplomatic and Consular expenditure towards the cost of a British Chaplain at Tehran, and the maintenance of Christian cemeteries.
The file contains:
- proposal that Indian Revenues should contribute towards the maintenance of a British Chaplain in Tehran, 1923; includes Report of the Inter-departmental Committee on British cemeteries abroad
- lists of members of the Indo-European Telegraph Department and their families buried in Persia
- financial contributions to the Christian Cemetery Fund, Yezd
- maintenance of the British cemeteries of Henjam and Basidu [Bāsa‘īdū] after the end of British occupation, in 1935
- construction of a wall around the new Cemetery site at Kuwait, in 1936
- list of inscriptions on memorials and gravestones in the cemeteries at Basidu and Henjam, 1936
- removal of tombstones to the British Cemetery at Shiraz from the old Armenian Cemetery
- replacement of damaged War Grave tablets in the British Cemetery at Shiraz.
The file is composed of correspondence between the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , the Office of Works, the Foreign Office, the British Legation at Tehran, the Imperial Bank of Persia, the High Commissioner for India, the British Consulate at Kerman, the British Consulate at Shiraz, the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Admiralty, the Imperial War Graves Commission, the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
There is a document in French, an extract from Le Messager de Tehran.
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 350; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 29/42 'Diplomatic and consular expenditure: contribution (from Indian revenues) towards cost of a British Chaplain at Tehran; Christian cemeteries in Persia and the Persian Gulf'
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- front, back, front-i, 3r:5v, 8r:51v, 54r:54v, 58r:62v, 64r:78v, 81r:153v, 154v:156v, 158r:222v, 224r:230v, 247v, 250r:255v, 256v:293v, 296r:303v, 306r:306v, 308r:352v, back-i
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