Author
George Percy Churchill.
Many of the notes are accompanied by imprints of the subject's seal and signature
Publication Date
c 1904 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Document
Language
eng,fas
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
302
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/1/746
Record ID
vdc_100000000193.0x0002d2
Library Location
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.
Date
c 1904 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The volume contains manuscript draft biographical notes on Persian statesmen and notables compiled by George Percy Churchill.
Many of the notes are accompanied by imprints of the subject's seal and signature (in Persian); some by typescript pages, extracts from published works and newspaper cuttings; and a few (folio 114v, folio 163v) by portrait photographs. The notes give the subject's name as heading, and various information including dates of birth and death, office and career history, family details (including members of the Shah's family), pay and financial details, interests, linguistic abilities, and some personal comments.
The introductory page (folio 4v), which is signed by Churchill and dated 1904, is inscribed 'Strictly Confidential and for the Use of His Majesty's Government Officials Only'. A manuscript note states that the volume had been compiled from a variety of sources, and embodied the bulk of Colonel H Picot's biographical note of 1897, which Churchill had endeavoured 'to bring up to date and amplify'. The volume also contains a printed extract containing a list of words used in the composition of Persian titles, with a glossary of their meaning, including both the Persian forms and English transliterations; a manuscript genealogical tree of the Royal Kajar House; a manuscript list entitled 'Principal Persian Diplomatic and Consular Representation'; a manuscript list of Persian cabinet minsters and other politicians, dated 1901; list of ministers, provincial governors, etc in Persia dated 1904; and grouped cuttings of printed seals and coloured impressions of crests (folios 2v, 3r, 29v).
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The volume contains an alphabetical index of names between ff. 5-28. These refer to the main body of entries by means of pagination numbers.
Seçilmiş kaynakça
George Percy Churchill
Biographical Notes of Persian Statesmen and Notables, August 1905
(Calcutta, 1906).
