BAHRAIN
SHEIKHDOM OF BAHRAIN
Ca 1766 part of the al-Utub tribe, headed by the al-Khalifah clan left Kuwait and settled at Zubara, on the west coast of the peninsula of Qatar. From here they occupied the island of Bahrain in 1783, making it the center of their power in 1796, after the destruction of Zubara by the Wahhabi. Bahrain was a signatory of the treaties of 1820, 1835, 1843 and 1853 and became a British protectorate - subject to the residency of the Persian Gulf - after the treaties of 1861, 1880 and 1892. __________________________________________________________________________________BRITISH REPRESENTATIVES
Native Agents From 1816 to the appointment of an official representative in 1900, the defence of British interests in Bahrain was entrusted to so-called "Native Agents", local Indian or Arab (since 1834) traders, who had a good knowledge of the local culture and of the local economic and political conditions. 1842 - 1862 ... 1862 - 1864 Haji Ibrahim ibn Rajab 18.. - 1864 - 1872 ... 1872 - 1884 Haji Abd an-Nabi Khan Safar 1803 - 1884 1884 - 1891 Haji Mirza Ahmed Khan Safar 182. - 1891 1891 - 1893 ... 1893 - 1900 Agha Muhammad Rahim Safar 183. – 1900 Assistant Political Agent 1900 - 1904 John Calcott Gaskin Political Agents 1904 - 1909 Francis Beville Prideaux 1871 - 1938 1909 - 1910 Charles Fraser Mackenzie 1880 - 1965 1910 - 1911 Stuart George Knox 1869 - 1956 1911 - 1912 David Lockhart Lorimer 1876 - 1962 1912 - 1914 Arthur Prescott Trevor 1872 - 1930 1914 - 1916 Terence Humphrey Keyes 1877 - 1939 1916 Hugh Stewart 1872 - 1931 1916 J. M. Da Costa* 1916 Trenchard Craven Fowle* 1884 - 1940 1916 - 1918 Percy Gordon Loch 1887 - 1963 1918 George Alexander Gavin Mungavin* 1918 - 1919 Norman Napier Bray 1885 - 1962 1919 Sayid Siddiq Hassan* 1919 - 1920 Harold Richard Dickson 1881 - 1959 1920 - 1921 Sayid Siddiq Hassan* (2x) 1921 - 1926 Clive Kirkpatrick Daly 1878 - 1966 1926 - 1929 Cyril Charles Barrett 1884 - 1933 1929 - 1932 Charles Geoffrey Prior 1896 - 1972 1932 - 1937 Percy Gordon Loch (2x) 1937 Tom Hickinbotham 1903 - 1983 1937 - 1940 Hugh Weightman 1898 - 1949 1940 - 1942 Reginald George Alban 1899 - 1942 - 1943 Edward Birbeck Wakefield 1903 - 1969 1943 Michael Gray Dixon* 1910 - 1943 - 1945 Tom Hickinbotham (2x) 1945 Cornelius James Pelly 1908 - 1985 __________________________________________________________________________________HEADS OF STATE
Sheikhs - Hakims House of al-Khalifah 1843 - 1868 Muhammad ibn Khalifah al-Khalifah (2x) deposed 1813 - 1890 1868 - 1869 Ali ibn Khalifah al-Khalifah, brother 1814 - 1869 1869 Muhammad ibn Khalifah al-Khalifah (3x), deposed 1869 Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Khalifah, cousin, deposed 1817 - 1877 1869 - 1932 Isa ibn Ali al-Khalifah, son of Sheikh Ali ibn Khalifah (s.a.) 1848 - 1932 Regent (imposed by the British after religious riots) 1923 - 1932 Hamad ibn Isa al-Khalifah, son 1872 - 1942 1932 - 1942 Sir (1935) Hamad ibn Isa al-Khalifah s.a. 1942 - 1961 Sulman ibn Hamad al-Khalifah, son 1895 - 1961
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