KUWAIT
SHEIKHDOM OF KUWAIT
Ca 1716 the al-Utub tribe migrated from Qatar to the nothern coastal region founding the state of Kuwait, headed by the as-Sabah clan, ca 1756. (1) In 1871 the state recognized the authority of the Osmanli Empire and Kuwait became a Kaza of the Sandjak Basra in the Vilayet Basra. Some years later, in 1899, it accepted British protection, becoming subject to the residency of the Persian Gulf (1) Some years later another clan, the al-Khalifah, returned to Qatar founding the state of Bahrain. __________________________________________________________________________________BRITISH REPRESENTATIVES
Native Agents From 1899 to the appointment of an official representative in 1904, the defence of British interests in Kuwait was entrusted to so-called "Native Agents", local Arab traders, who had a good knowledge of the local culture and of the local economic and political conditions. 1899 - 1904 ... Political Agents 1904 - 1909 Stuart George Knox 1869 - 1956 1909 - 1914 William Henry Shakespear 1878 - 1915 1914 - 1916 William George Grey 1866 - 1953 1916 - 1918 Robert Edward Hamilton 1871 - 1950 1918 Percy Gordon Loch 1887 - 1953 1918 - 1920 Daniel Vincent McCollum 1920 - 1929 James Carmichael More 1883 - 1959 1929 - 1936 Harold Richard Dickson 1881 - 1959 1936 - 1939 Gerald Simpson de Gaury 1897 - 1984 1939 - 1941 Arnold Crawsham Galloway 1901 - 1988 1941 Harold Richard Dickson (2x) 1941 - 1943 Tom Hickinbotham 1903 - 1983 1943 - 1944 Cornelius James Pelly 1908 - 1985 1944 - 1945 Gordon Noel Jackson 1913 - 1999 1945 - 1946 Maurice Patrick Tandy 1912 - 1986 __________________________________________________________________________________HEADS OF STATE
Sheikhs (2) House as-Sabah 1814 - 1859 Jabir ibn Abdullah as-Sabah 1770 - 1859 1859 - 1866 Sabah ibn Jabir as-Sabah, son 1810 - 1866 1866 - 1892 Abdullah ibn Sabah as-Sabah, son 1814 - 1892 1892 - 1896 Muhammad ibn Sabah as-Sabah, brother 1831 - 1896 1896 - 1915 Mubarak ibn Sabah as-Sabah "al-Kebir" (the Great), brother 1837 - 1915 1915 - 1917 Jabir ibn Mubarak as-Sabah, son 1860 - 1917 1917 - 1921 Salim ibn Mubarak as-Sabah, brother 1864 - 1921 1921 - 1950 Ahmad ibn Jabir as-Sabah, son of Sheykh Jabir ibn Mubarak (s.a.) 1885 - 1950 (2) Since their recognition of Osmanli authority in 1871, the rulers also had the Osmanli ranks of Qaimaqam (= Administrative head of a Kaza) and Pasha.
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