'Notes from Major Willock's Dispatches to the Secret Committee'

IOR/G/29/38, ff 501-513

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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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Content: 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].
Extent and format: 1 item (13 folios)
It is part of: Miscellaneous Subjects Relating to Persia
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Ref: IOR/G/29/38
Written in: English in Latin script
Type: Archival item

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Original held at: 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.
Access conditions: Unrestricted
Archive reference: IOR/G/29/38, ff 501-513
Date(s): 15 Jul 1820 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects: Piracy
Places: Ras-ul-KhymaBahreinPersian Gulf
People & organisations: HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia

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Reference: IOR/G/29/38, ff 501-513
Title: 'Notes from Major Willock's Dispatches to the Secret Committee'
Pages: 501r:513v
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
Usage terms: Open Government Licence