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- 2000 (Creation)
- [1930 - 1950] (Creation)
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2 archival folders
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Biographical history
Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy (1912-86) Tandy had a career spanning the Royal Artillery, the North-West Frontier Province of India, and colonial administration in the Persian Gulf, where he was Political Officer, Trucial Coast, and later Political Agent, Kuwait. His posts and dates include: Vice-Consul Zabul 1939-40, Assistant Commissioner Kohat 1940-41, Vice-Consul Bushire 1941, Political Officer Trucial Coast 1943-44, Assistant Political Agent Bahrain 1944-45, Political Agent Kuwait 1945-48.
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The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia'. It continues as a forum for those who are interested in the languages, cultures and history of Asia to meet and exchange ideas.
Repository
Archival history
With the "Grammar of Azerbaijan Turkish" is a letter sent from Tandy to General Sir John O'Shea of The Royal Central Asian Society in 1946 to give the material to the Society.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
An document under Library Reports lists that these manuscripts and some issues of Asian Affairs were donated by Mrs Virginia Pilbrow. A copy of this document has been placed with this material. This document dates to June 2000.
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Scope and content
Two handwritten manuscripts by Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy, two allied letters, and some provenance information.
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System of arrangement
There are two manuscripts, one of which has allied correspondence, so two files were created for these manuscripts, and a further file for the provenance material.
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Conditions governing access
Open. Please contact the archivist using the email address given here. The archive is open on Tuesdays and Fridays 10-5, and Thursdays 2-5. Access is to any researcher without appointment but it will help if an appointment is made via phone or email. Please bring photo ID
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Digital photography (without flash) for research purposes may be permitted upon completion of a copyright declaration form, and with respect to current UK copyright law.
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- English
- Azerbaijani
- Turkmen
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Archivist's note
These papers were catalogued by Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist, in 2019.