PERSIAN GULF
For this period "Persian Gulf" has to be prefered to "Arabic Gulf" or "Gulf".
BRITISH RESIDENCY OF THE PERSIAN GULF
British presence in the Gulf dated from the early 17th century, when the HEIC (Honorable East India Compagny) established an agency - which became a residency in 1763 - in the region. But it was only after a major military intervention in 1820 that British influence really became dominant, the different local states signing, in the course of the following years, a serial of treaties limiting their sovreignity and bringing them at the end, under British protectorate. List of Treaties 1820 : Treaty with the "Trucial Coast States" (TCS) and Bahrain, abolishing slave- trade and forbidding piracy and warfare between the states. (This last point was never implemented, wars between the states starting again as soon as the British forces had left) 1835 : Treaty with the TCS, instoring a truce of six months a year, during the pearling-season. 1843 : Treaty with the TCS, renewing the treaty of 1835 for ten years. 1853 : Treaty with the TCS, renewing the treaty of 1835 for an unlimited period. 1861 : Protectorate treaty with Bahrain (completed by treaties of 1880 and 1892). 1892 : Protectorate treaty with Oman and the TCS. 1899 : Protectorate treaty with Kuweit. 1916 : Protectorate treaty with Qatar. States dependent of the Residency Abu Dhabi (TCS) Ajman (TCS) Bahrain Dubai (TCS) Kalba (TCS since 1936) Kuwait Oman Qatar Ras al-Khaimah (TCS) Sharjah (TCS) Umm al-Qaiwain (TCS) __________________________________________________________________________________BRITISH REPRESENTATIVES
British Residents (subordinated to the governor of the British Indian province of Bombay) 1838 - 1852 Samuel Hennell 1852 - 1856 Arnold Burrowes Kemball 1820 - 1908 1856 - 1862 James Felix Jones 1813 - 1878 1862 Herbert Frederick Disbrowe* 1826 - 1862 - 1872 LtCol. Lewis Pelly 1825 - 1892 1872 - 1891 Edward Charles Ross 1836 - 1913 1891 - 1893 Adelbert Cecil Talbot 1845 - 1920 1893 Stuart Hill Godfrey* 1861 - 1941 1893 James Hayes Sadler* 1851 - 1922 1893 James Adair Crawford* 1857 - 1893 - 1894 James Hayes Sadler* (2x) 1894 - 1897 Frederick Alexander Wilson 1842 - 1899 1897 - 1900 LtCol. Malcolm John Meade 1854 - 1933 1900 - 1904 Charles Arnold Kemball* 1860 - 1943 1904 - 1920 Percy Zachariah Cox 1864 - 1937 Acting Residents 1913 - 1920 (Cox carriying out numerous diplomatic and administrative tasks in this period : - Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the Indian administration, Chief Political Officer and Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia 1914-1918, - British Minister in Iran 1918-1920) 1913 - 1914 John Gordon Lorimer 1870 - 1914 1914 Richard Lockinton Birdwood 1879 - 1914 1914 Stuart George Knox 1869 - 1956 1914 - 1915 none 1915 Stuart George Knox (2x) 1915 - 1917 Arthur Prescott Trevor 1872 - 1930 1917 - 1919 John Hugo Bill 18.. - 1919 1919 Cecil Hamilton Gabriel 1879 - 1947 1919 - 1920 Arthur Prescott Trevor (2x) 1920 LtCol. Arnold Talbot Wilson* 1884 - 1940 1920 - 1924 Arthur Prescott Trevor s.a. 1924 - 1927 Francis Beville Prideaux 1871 - 1938 1927 - 1928 Lionel Berkeley Haworth 1873 - 1951 1928 - 1929 Frderick William Johnston 1872 - 1947 1929 Cyril Charles Barrett* 1884 - 1932 1929 - 1932 Hugh Vincent Biscoe 1881 - 1932 1931 - 1939 Trenchard Craven Fowle 1884 - 1940 1939 - 1946 Charles Geoffrey Prior 1896 - 1972 Subordinate British Representatives There were subordinate British Representatives in : Bahrain since 1900 Kuwait since 1904 The Trucial Coast since 1939.
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