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Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia [‎190r] (379/442)

The record is made up of 1 file (221 folios). It was created in Nov 1911-Mar 1917. It was written in English. 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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Barony oj Latymer. [15 Jult 1912 ] Barony of Latymer.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Monday, 15th July, 1912.
BARONY OF LATYMER.
Committee for Privileges met: Counsel
further heard on behalf of the Claimant:
Witnesses examined : Evidence put in:
Counsel heard on behalf of the Crown:
Claim considered: Resolution agreed to by
the Committee ; report thereof to be made
to the House.
The proceedings and minutes of evidence
taken before the Committee for Privileges
to be printed.
Ordered, That all deeds, documents and
papers produced on behalf of the Claimant
by his agents be delivered to the said
agents.
House adjourned during pleasure ; and
resumed by the Lord Chancellor.
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That the other co-heirs to the said
Barony are :
John James Hugh Henry, Duke of
Atholl;
Elizabeth Anne, Countess Palatiano,
Nina Katherine Elena Webley -
Parry, Olivia Fanny White, Frances
Oxenham Russell;
Henry Rainald, Viscount Gage ;
Colonel Hugo Montgomery Campbell;
Mary Ethel, Baroness Beaumont;
Henry Noailles Widdrington Standish ;
Edward Carington Wright of Kelvedon ;
John Rogerson, Lord Rollo ;
Millicent Grace Gordon-Ives ; and
Montagu, Earl of Abingdon :
Read, and agreed to; and resolved and
adjudged accordingly ; and Resolution and
Judgment to be laid before His Majesty
by the Lords with White Staves.
The Earl of Tankerville —Took the
Oath.
BARONY OF LATYMER.
Report made from Ahe Committee for
Privileges :
That the Barony of Latymer was
created by Writ of Summons tested
the 25th day of February in the
tenth year of King Henry VI,
addressed to Sir George Nevill,
Knight, and that the said Sir
George Nevill was subsequently
present as a Peer in Parliament in
the style of Lord Latymer.
That the Barony of Latymer so created
is a Barony in Fee.
That the said Barony descended to
John 4th Lord Latymer.
That John 4th Lord Latymer died in
the year 1577 without issue male,
leaving his four daughters, Catherine
Countess of Northumberland,
Dorothy afterwards Countess of
Exeter, Dame Lucy Cornwallis and
Dame Elizabeth Danvers his co-heirs.
That the said Barony thereupon fell
into abeyance between the above-
mentioned four daughters of John
4th Lord Latymer and is now in
abeyance between their co-heirs.
That the Petitioner, Francis Coutts,
is a co-heir to the said Barony of
Latymer.
(D 375)
The Lord Chancellor acquainted the
House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments
had laid upon the Table the Certificates
from the Examiners that the further
Standing Orders applicable to the following
Bills have been complied with :
London County Council (Finance).
London County Council (General Powers).
The same were ordered to lie on the
Table.
SHIPLEY URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL.
Read 3 a , and passed.
STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES WATER BILL.
GAS COMPANIES (STANDARD BURNER)
BILL.
Read 3 a , with the Amendments, and
passed, and returned to the Commons.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL
ORDERS (No. 9) BILL. (No. 115.)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL
ORDER (No. 13) BILL. (No. 116.)
Brought from the Commons; read l a ;
to be printed; and referred to the
Examiners.
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The file contains correspondence, memoranda, and other papers relating to railway projects in Persia [Iran] and the surrounding region. The papers deal with the proposals for, planning, and progress of, several railway lines, including one from the Mediterranean to India, the Trans-Persian Railway, the Baghdad Railway, and the Nushki and Dalbandin extension from Quetta. The documents discuss the merits and flaws of the proposals, technical issues such as gauge sizes, and the impact of such projects on Britain's relations with Russia, Germany, France, and Turkey.

At the back of the file are a number of official reports on Parliamentary debates within the House of Commons, dating from 10 July 1912 to 25 May 1914, all of which feature railways (folios 128-218). Also at the rear of the file are three maps:

  • General Map of Asia with proposed British, German, and Russian rail lines added by hand
  • War Office map of the Middle East, showing railways and railway projects
  • As above with further rail lines added and details of gauges given.

Correspondents include: Arthur Campbell Yate, army Officer; Henry McNiel; Francis Richard Maunsell, army officer; George Lloyd, politician; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles à Court Repington, army officer and war correspondent; Lord Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Leader of the House of Lords; Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice (Lord Lansdowne), statesman; Lucien Wolf, journalist and historian; Charles Staniforth, businessman and railway investor; Charles Prestwich Scott, Editor of the Manchester Guardian; Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Director, Imperial Bank of Persia; and Colonel Frank Cooke Webb Ware, former Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Chagai.

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1 file (221 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 221; 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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