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in Basra. Harford Jones had been the Company's Assistant Resident in Basra since 1784, and seems to have lobbied for establishing the post in Baghdad. However, various circumstances rendered him largely ineffective, except in arranging for the Company's overland mail to use a more secure and less expensive route through Baghdad instead of across the desert from
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might present a threat to British interests in India, the Company's Directors accepted a suggestion to establish a Residency in Baghdad. The Residency in Baghdad was intended to provide direct access to the Ottoman Vali (provincial governor) there, rather than through an agent of the Company Resident
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In a royal sign manual dated 4 May 1826, in commemoration of his descent through his maternal grandmother from the family of Brydges of Old Colwall, Herefordshire, he assumed the additional name of Brydges.
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Subsequently, he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia, where he remained four years from 1807 to 1811. On 9 October 1807 he was created a
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He died at his seat at Boultibrook, Presteigne on 17 March 1847. Through his marriage with Sarah, eldest daughter of the knight Sir
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An Account of His Majesty's Mission to the Court of Persia in the years 1807–11, to which is added a brief history of the Wahauby
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in a letter to the court of directors of the East India Company, denouncing the latter's policy of annexation and conquest.
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Throughout life he a deep interest in the welfare both of the Persians and the natives of India. In 1833 he published
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he was disappointed with the prospects of promotion in the East India Company, and resigned.
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Portrait, oil on canvas, of Sir Harford Jones Brydges, 1st Baronet (1764–1847) by Sir
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Born on 12 January 1764, Sir Harford Jones-Brydges was the son of Harford Jones of
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The Dynasty of the Kajars, translated from the original Persian manuscript
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Letter on the Present State of British Interests and Affairs in Persia
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On 15 June 1831, he received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the
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