MECA Online Guides & Catalogues
Online Guides and Handlists
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Contents
- Main Guide
- Country Guides
- Subject/Time period and Map Guides
- MECA Handlists
- Oman Archive
Main Guide (provides a brief overview of the Archive’s holdings)
Country Guides
- Afghanistan
- Egypt
- Gulf [Persian Gulf, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar]
- Iran/Persia
- Iraq/Mesopotamia
- Israel/Palestine
- Jordan/Transjordan
- Lebanon
- Libya/Cyrenaica
- North Africa [Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia]
- Oman
- Saudi Arabia
- Sudan
- Syria
- Yemen/Aden/South Arabia
Subject/Time period and Map Guides
- Arab Revolt Palestine 1936-1939 Collections’ Guide
- Christian Missionary Collections’ Guide
- Economic Development Guide
- Education Collections’ Guide
- Medicine Collections’ Guide
- Oil Guide
- Palestine Police Guide
- Palestine Police Oral History Guide
- Women Collections’ Guide
- Nineteenth Century Material
- Maps Collections’ Guide
MECA Handlists
The MECA Handlists represent our most detailed catalogues. The following list is arranged by the Name of the Creator of the collection.
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- Abdülmecid II (1868-1944) Last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (Whitehouse Collection)
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- Adamson, Richard Colonial Policeman
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- Allard, William (b.1889)
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- Allen, Geoffrey Francis (1902-1982) Anglican Bishop
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- Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman (1861-1936) 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo, Field Marshal
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- Amos Collection – see Wallas, Graham
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- Amzalak, Mayer H. and Amzalak, J.B.
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- Anderson, Margaret Grace (b.1931)
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- Antonius, George( 1891-1941)
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- Arab Development Society (1945-)
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- Aramco – please see Mulligan, William E.
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- Archibald, S G (fl 1912-1920) Lawyer
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- Ardagh, Sir John (1840-1907) Knight, Major General, Diplomat
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- Aref, Aref, El- (1892-1973)
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- Armitage, Henry St John Basil (1924-2004)
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- Arthur, Sir Geoffrey (1920-1984) Knight, Diplomat
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- Ashley, Edward (1934-2001) Soldier
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- Bailey, Sheilagh Elizabeth (b.1929)
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- Baird, Nina Isabel (d.1919)
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- Baker, John Slade (d.1966) Colonel, Journalist (Slade Baker Collection)
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- Ball, Robert (1919-1987) Palestine Policeman
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- Ball, Royston Arthur (b.1928)
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- Barbour, Nevill (1895-1974)
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- Baring, Evelyn (1841-1917) 1st Earl of Cromer, statesman and Baring, Rowland Thomas (1877-1953) 2nd Earl of Cromer (Cromer Collection)
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- Barrington, Peter Roland Austin (1928-2017)
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- Bauer, Yehuda (b.1926) Historian
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- Beasley, Ina M. (1898-1994) Sudan Education Service
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- Beaumont, Sir Richard Ashton (1912-2009) Knight, Diplomat and Arabist
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- Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian (1868-1926) Traveller, Archaeologist and Government Official
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- Bennett, Jean Margaret (1928-2000)
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- Bentwich, Norman de Mattos (1883-1971)
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- Besly, Ernest Francis Withers (1891-1965) Judge
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- Billingsley, Laurence (b.1927)
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- Blackburn, Donald (1902-1996)
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- Blatchford, Edward Williams (1868-1956)
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- Blenkinsop, Frederick William Geoffrey (1907-1946)
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- Boustead, Sir John Edmund Hugh (1895-1980) Knight Colonel Colonial Administrator
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- Bowman, Humphrey Ernest (1879-1965) Director of Education Colonial Service
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- Boyle, Harry (1863-1937) Diplomat
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- Brebber, Alexander (1896-1991)
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- Bremridge, Thomas James (b.1944)
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- Brian Lapping Associates Ltd (Fifty Years War Collection)
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- British Middle East Forces (Parade Collection)
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- Broadhurst, Ronald Joseph Callender (1906-1976)
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- Brodie, Donald Haig (1917-1981) Palestine Policeman
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- Brown, David Oliver (b.1926)
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- Brown, Eden Tatton- (1877-1961), Customs Administrator
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- Brunton, Chisholm Dunbar (b.1887) Soldier, Major.
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- Bryce, James (1838-1922) Viscount
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- Buccianti, Alexandro (b.c1772)
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- Bullard, Sir Reader William (1885-1976) Knight Diplomat
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- Burt, John (b.1925)
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- Butler, Michael Paul (b.1940)
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- Cairo Scientific Society (1898-1951)
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- Cannings, Victor Henry Douglas (1919-2016) Palestine Policeman
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- Card, John Glenville (b.1926) Palestine Policeman
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- Chancellor, Sir John Robert (1870-1952) Knight Colonial Administrator
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- Cheetham, Sir Milne (1869-1938) Knight
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- Chehab, Farid (1908-1985)
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- Chirol, Sir Ignatius Valentine (1852-1929)
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- Clark, Fred (1911-1939) Palestine Policeman
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- Clark, Peter John Alleguen (b.1939)
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- Clayton, Sir Iltyd Nicholl (1886-1955) Knight, Brigadier
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- Cleaver, Percy (1915-1998) Policeman
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- Clive, Nigel David (1917-2001)
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- Coate, Winifred A. (1893-1977)
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- Coghill, Sir Marmaduke Nevill Patrick Somerville (1896-1981) Baronet
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- Cooke, Sir John Fletcher- (1911-1989) Knight
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- Coppin, David Midleton (b.1939)
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- Corkill, Norman (1898-1966)
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- Cornwallis, Sir Kinahan (1883-1959)
- Corrie, Sir Owen Cecil Kirkpatrick (1882-1965) Knight, Judge
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- Cox, Sir Percy Zachariah (1864-1937) Knight, Major General, Colonial Administrator and Diplomat
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- Cramer-Roberts Collection – see Roberts, Frank Cramer- (d.1943), Engineer
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- Crossman, Richard Howard Stafford (1907-1974)
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- Crowdy, J.D. (d.1920) Soldier
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- Cromer Collection – see Baring, Evelyn (1841-1917) 1st Earl of Cromer
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- Crowe, Dr Sibyl Eyre (1908-1993) Academic
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- Cunningham, Sir Alan Gordon (1887-1983) Knight, GeneralD
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- Deane-Drummond Collection – see Drummond, Antony John Deane- (b.1917)
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- Deedes, Brigadier-General Sir Wyndham Henry (1883-1956) Army Officer, Civil Administrator, Zionist and Social Worker
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- Dickson, John (1847-1906) Consul at Damascus and Jerusalem
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- Dickson, Harold Richard Patrick (1881-1959) Lieutenant Colonel Colonial Administrator
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- Dickson, Dame Violet Penelope (1896-1991)
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- Digby – see Mezrab, Jane Elizabeth Digby El (1807-1881)
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- Dowson, Sir Ernest MacLeod (1876-1950) Knight
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- Drummond, Antony John Deane- (b.1917)
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- Edenborough, Richard Oakley Montagu (1906-1995)
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- Edmonds Cecil John (1889-1979) Diplomat
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- Edwards, Francis Millward (1886-1976)
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- Edwards, Francis William (b.1931) (Frank Edwards Collection)
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- Edwards, Stephen Herbert St George (1912-1997) Palestine Policeman
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- Elphinston, William Graham (1886-1952) Colonel
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- Emery, Susanna Pearce (1896-1986) Teacher
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- Emery, Victor (b.1924)
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- Ensor, Andrew Fisher (1918-2008)
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- Everett, Sir William (1844-1908) Knight, Colonel, Diplomat
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- Ewers, Gordon Etrick (1924-2000) Palestine Policeman
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- Faraday, John Alexander Mulloy (1899-1986) Soldier and Police Officer
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- Farnall, Harry de la Rosa Burrard (1852-1929)
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- Farrell, Wilfrid Jerome (1882-1960)
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- Felgate, Frederick Albert (1915-1976) British Mandate Palestine Policeman.
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- Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs – please see Brian Lapping Associates Ltd
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- Fletcher, Paul Duncan (1917-1978)
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- Fletcher-Cooke Collection – please see Cooke, Sir John Fletcher- (1911-1989) Knight
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- Flinn, Walter Leonard (1883-1969)
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- Forster, Elliot David (b.1905) Doctor
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- Foster-Turner Collection – please see Turner, Frederick Wentworth Foster- (1893-1989)
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- Frankfurter, Felix (1882-1965)
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- Fraser, Thomas Howden (d.1975)
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- Fraser, William Archibald Kenneth (1886-1969) Major-General
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- Fraser-Tytler Collection – please see Tytler, Sir William Kerr Fraser- (1886-1963) Knight Minister to Afghanistan
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- Fuller, William Vickery (b.1907)
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- Furness, Sir Robert Allason (1883-1954) Knight, Egyptian Civil ServantG
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- Garstang, John (1876-1956) Professor, Archaeologist
- Gaury, Gerald Simpson Hillairet Rutland Vere de (1897-1984) Arabist, writer, diplomat
- Gibbs, Brian Conaway (1912-1946)
- Giesler, Rodney William Aldous (1931-2016)
- Giles, Peter (1929-2014) British Mandate Palestine Policeman
- Gill, Cecil Gervase Hope (1894-1984) Diplomat
- Gotto, Anthony Murly- (b.1942) (Murly Gotto Collection)
- Gorst, Sir John Eldon (1861-1911) Knight, Consul General in Egypt
- Gould, Lorraine Macdonald (1898-1935)
- Graham, John David Carew (b.1923) Major General
- Grafftey-Smith – please see Smith, Sir Laurence Barton Grafftey- (1892-1989) Knight
- Graves, Richard Massie (1880-1960)
- Grenfell, Francis Wallace (1841-1925) 1st Baron Grenfell, Field Marshall
- Gurney, Betty (d.1981) Missionary
- Gurney, Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworth (1898-1951) Knight, High Commissioner Colonial ServiceH
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- Hamilton, John Almeric de Courcy (1896-1973)
- Hamilton, Robert Ernest (1925-2006) Palestine Policeman
- Hanson, Henry James (1838-1935)
- Harrison, Helena Austen (c.1895-1986)
- Hawley, Sir Donald Frederick (b.1921) Knight
- Hay, Sir William Rupert (1893-1962) Knight, Lieutenant Colonel Indian Administrator
- Haycraft, Sir Thomas Wagstaffe (1858-1936) Barrister, Chief Justice, Knight
- Hayter, Sir William Goodenough (1869-1924)
- Hazelden, John Winston (b.1942)
- Hepworth, Charles (b.1943)
- Herbert, Mervyn Robert Howard Molyneux (1882-1929) Diplomat
- Higgins, John
- Hogarth, David George (1862-1927) Arab Historian and Archaeologist
- Holden, Andrew (d.1973)
- Holdsworth, Dick (Leslie Leonard David) 1913-1988
- Holmes, Richard J (1928-1977)
- Holt, Sir Vyvyan (1896-1960)
- Hope Gill Collection – please see Gill, Cecil Gervase Hope (1894-1984) Diplomat (Hope Gill Collection)
- Hornsby, Sir Bertram (d.1943) Knight, Egyptian Civil Servant
- Hourani, Cecil Amin (b.1917)
- Hubbard, Laurence Arthur (b.1936) Reverend
- Hunt, John (b.1931) Soldier
- Hutson, George Chrystal (1908-1967)
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- Iliff, Sir William Angus Boyd (1898-1972)
- Ingrams, William Harold (1897-1973) Colonial Administrator, Author
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- Jamali, Mohammed Fadhel (1903-1997) Politician
- Jardine, Lionel Westropp (1895-1980)
- Johns, Cedric Norman (1904-1992)
- Jordan British Ambassador’s Annual Reports
- Jordan Collection
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- Keating, Rex (1910-2005) Palestine Broadcasting Service
- Kent, Derek Frederick John (b.1925)
- Keown-Boyd, Sir Alexander William (1884-1954)
- Kerr, William (1930-2012) Lieutenant Colonel
- Kermack, Stuart Grace (1888-1981)
- Kessler, Leopold (1864-1944)
- Kirby, Trevor Roland (1923-2015) Palestine Policeman
- Kinch, Edward Alec (b.1986)
- Kitchener, Sir Horatio Herbert (1850-1916) 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, Field Marshal
- Klingman, Clara Struve (b.1907)
- Knapp, Wilfrid Francis (1924-2011) Academic
- Kuhl, Carl Heinrich Leopold (1844-1919)
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- Lampson, Sir Miles Wedderburn, 1st Baron Killearn (1880-1964)
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- Layard, Sir Austen Henry (1817-1894)
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- Leachman, Gerard Evelyn (1880-1920) Soldier
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- Le Ray Collection – please see Ray, Hugh Granville Le (b. 1895)
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- Lienhardt, Peter Arnold (1928-1986) Anthropologist
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- Linaker, Christopher (b.1945) Soldier
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- Lloyd – Phillips Collection – please see Phillips, Ivan Lloyd (1910-1984)
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- Lomas, Ernest Gabriel (1878-1947) Diplomat
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- Longrigg, Stephen Hemsley (1893-1979) Brigadier
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- Lotbinière, Helen Ruth Mildred Joly de (1912-1953)
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- Loraine, Sir Percy Lyham (1880-1961) Baronet
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- Eric, Lowe (b.1928)
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- Loxton, John Willoughby (b.1913)
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- Lucas, Ivor (b.1927) Diplomat
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- Luke, Sir Harry Charles (1884-1969) Knight, Colonial Governor
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- MacGillivray, Sir Donald (1906-1966) Knight, Colonial Administrator
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- MacGuffie, Alexander (b.c1888)
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- MacMichael, Sir Harold (1882-1969) Knight
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- Mance, Sir Henry Osborne (1875-1966) Knight, Brigadier-General
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- Mayers, Norman (1895-1986)
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- Mellor, Aubrey Rollo Ibbetson (1892-1977)
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- McArthur, Arthur (b.1913)
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- McNeill, Angus John (1874-1950) Brigadier General
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- Meinertzhagen, Richard (1878-1967) Soldier
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- Melville, Robert Kenneth (b.1918) Colonel
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- Mezrab, Jane Elizabeth Digby El (1807-1881)
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- Middle East Development Division (1946-1983)
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- Middle East Supply Centre (1941-1945)
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- Mills, Eric (1892-1961)
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- Monckton, Reginald Francis Percy (1896-1975) Soldier, Major
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- Monroe, Elizabeth (1905-1986) Journalist, Academic
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- Morgan, Dorothy Blanche (b.1906) Teacher
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- Philip Morris Collection – please see British Mandate Palestine Police (1920-1948)
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- Morris, Sir Willie (1919-1982) Knight
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- Morrison, Daniel Kerr (1911-1994) Policeman
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- Morrison, Michael Andrews (born c1854)
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- Morton, Desmond (1927-2005)
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- Mott-Radclyffe, Sir Charles Edward (1911-1992) Knight
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- Mulligan, William E. (1918-1992)
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- Mumford, Richard (1894-1960)
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- Murray, John (1912-1986)
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- Murly-Gotto Collection – please see Gotto, Anthony Murly- (b.1942)
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- Mylrea, C. Stanley G. (1876-1952) Physician
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- Nairn Transport Company, Beirut
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- Nalder, Leonard Fielding (1888-1958) Colonial Governor
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- Nelson, Valerie see Robinson, Valerie Winifred (b.1934)
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- Nicholson, William Ewart (1890-1983)
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- Norman, Dorothy Aston (1907-c1993)
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- Norton, Sir Clifford John (1891-1990) Knight
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- Nott, Lewis Herbert William (1869-1964)
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- Nusseibeh, Anwar Zaki (1913-1986)
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- Parade Collection – please see British Middle East Forces
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- Parlby, Joshua (1889-1975) Colonial Financial Administrator
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- Partington, Frank (b.1925)
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- Partridge, Austin Roger (1927-2020)
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- Paxton, Julian F.E. (b.1937)
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- Perkins, William Jackson (c1892-1969)
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- Perowne, Stewart Henry (1901-1989) orientalist and historian
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- Peyton, William Durham (1917-1991)
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- Philby, Harry St John Bridger (1885-1960) Explorer and Orientalist
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- Phillips, Ivan Lloyd (1910-1984) (Lloyd Philips Collection)
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- Pirie, Charles (b.1943)
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- Popham, Reginald Philip (1900-1999)
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- Poole, John (1912-1977) Palestine Policeman
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- Price, Morgan Philips (1885-1972)
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- Ramirez, Rosalind Cecilia (1912-1999) Teacher and Governess
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- Rapp, Sir Thomas Cecil (1893-1984) Knight, Diplomat
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- Ray, Hugh Granville Le (b.1895) (Le Ray Collection)
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- Reid Collection – please see Bennett, Jean Margaret
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- Renton, James Malcolm Leslie (1898-1972) Solider, Major-General
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- Richards, Herbert Arthur (1866-1957)
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- Richards, Peter Clifton (b.1909)
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- Rice, Harry Patrick (1886-1973)
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- Roberts, Frank Cramer- (d.1943), Engineer
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- Roberts, William Hamish (b.1927)
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- Robinson, Valerie Winifred (b.1934)
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- Rosser, Kevin (b.1970)
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- Rowley, Noel (b.1926)
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- Russell, Sir Thomas Wentworth (1879-1954) Knight, Commandant of Cairo Police ‘Russell Pasha’
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- Russell, Francis Mark (1927-2007) Palestine Policeman
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- Ryan, Sir Andrew (1895-1958) Knight, Diplomat
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- Sadleir, Captain George Forster (1789-1859)
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- Salmon, Frederick John (1882-1964)
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- Saunders, Alan (1886-1964) Colonial Policeman
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- Searle, David Courtis (b.1933)
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- Searle, Pauline (1922-2011)
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- Scholes, Carpenter Civil Engineer
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- Scrivener, Rupert Frederick (1890-1951) Chief Engineer of Palestine Railways and Ports
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- Scott, Frank Montgomery (1892-1974)
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- Shepherd, Sir Francis Michie (1892-1962) Knight, Diplomat
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- Shlaim, Avi (b. 1945) Political scientist and historian
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- Sichel, Peter (b.1946)
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- Sims, Les (b.1926)
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- Sinderson, Sir Harry Chapman (1891-1974) Knight, Physician
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- Skeet, Ian (b.1928)
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- Slade-Baker Collection – please see Baker, John Slade (d.1966) Colonel, Journalist
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- Smiley, David (b.1916)
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- Smith, Arthur Lionel Forster (1880-1972) Educationalist
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- Smith, John Allan (1894-1966)
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- Smith, Sir Laurence Barton Grafftey- (1892-1989) Knight
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- Somerset, Fitzroy Richard, 4th Baron Raglan (1885-1964)
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- Spears, Sir Edward Louis (1886-1974) Knight, Major General, Politician and Author
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- Spry, Sir John Farley (1910-1999) Knight
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- Stainton, Benjamin (1856-1927)
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- Stewart, William David (b. 1928) Palestine Policeman
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- Strange, Robin R (d.1997)
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- Sweeney, Daniel (b.1945) Soldier
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- Sykes, Herbert Rushton (1870-1952) Engineer
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- Sykes, Edward Molesworth (1910-1992)
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- Sykes, Sir Mark 6th Baronet (1879-1919)
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- Sykes, Sir Percy Molesworth (1867-1945) Knight Lieutenant Colonel Colonial Administrator
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- Tassell, Robert (1878-1867 or 1874)
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- Tegart, Sir Charles Augustus (1881-1946) Knight, Indian Police Officer
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- Tatton-Brown, Eden see Brown, Eden Tatton- (1877-1961), Customs Administrator
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- Thesiger, Wilfred (1910-2003) Knight, Diplomat, Author and Traveller
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- Thomas, Noel Edward Ivor (1901-1984) Teacher, Club Secretary and Scout Master
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- Tibawi, Abdul-Latif (b.1910)
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- Tweedy, Owen Meredith (1888-1960) Journalist and Civil Servant
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- Tytler, Sir William Kerr Fraser- (1886-1963) Knight Minister to Afghanistan
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- United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (1947)
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- Waddington, James Hilary Sheffield (1903-1989) Architect Inspector, Archaeologist
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- Wade, Harry Llewellyn (1908-1983)
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- Wallas, Graham (Amos Collection)
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- Walmsley, Malcolm Thomas (b.1927)
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- Ward, Richard Joseph (b.1921) Economist
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- Warton, Keith (1940-2010) Soldier
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- Waterfield, Gordon (1903-1987)
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- Watt, Donald Cameron (b.1928)
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- Webb, Cecil Richard (1887-1974)
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- Wells, Edward (b.1924) Palestine Policeman
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- Wheeler, Geoffrey Edleston (1897-1990) Indian Army Officer
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- Wheeler, Percy D’Erf (1861-1944) Missionary and Physician
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- Wheeler, Ralph Pung (1898-1977) Brigadier
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- White, ‘Chalky’ Harold (1922-1946) Palestine Policeman
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- Whitehouse Collection – please see Abdulmecid II (1868-1944) Last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire
- Wigan, Thomas Keble (1892-1952)
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- Williams, Vivian Embassy Worker Yemen
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- Williamson, Graham Frank (b.1926)
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- Wilson, Hilda Mary (1904-1990) School teacher
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- Wilson, Monica (b.1920) radio broadcaster, journalist and civil servant
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- Wilson, Thomas Woodrow (1856-1924) President United States
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- Wiltshire, Edward Parr (b. 1910)
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- Wingate, Sir Ronald Evelyn Leslie (1889-1978) Baronet, Civil Servant and Author
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- Wolseley, Garnet Joseph (1833-1913) 1st Viscount Wolseley, General
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- Wood, Barbara (b. 1926)
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- Wood, Sir Richard (1806-1900) Knight Diplomat
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- Wright, Sir Denis (1911-2005) Knight
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- Yale, William (1887-1975)
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- Young, Sir Hubert (1885-1950) Knight, Soldier and Administrator
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- Zissu, Theodore A. L. (1916-1942)