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'Notes from Major Willock's Dispatches to the Secret Committee' [505r] (9/26)
The record is made up of 1 item (13 folios). It was created in 15 Jul 1820. 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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The item consists of notes relating to communications sent by Major Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires at the Court of Persia [Iran] in Tehran, to the Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. , dated between 24 February and 17 April 1820. A list of the dispatches referred to in the notes is given on folio 501 and these communications are also noted in the margin when referenced. The dispatches concern British measures to counter ‘piracy’ in the Persian Gulph [Gulf], including the naval expedition against Ras-ul-Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah] in 1819, British plans to establish a settlement on an island in the Gulph, and the plans of Persia and the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat to take the island of Bahrein [Bahrain].
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- IOR/G/29/38, ff 501-513
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- 'Notes from Major Willock's Dispatches to the Secret Committee'
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- 501r:513v
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