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3 days ago · History of Iran. Oil in Iran between the Two World Wars. By: Dr. Mohammad Malek. I t was on May 28th, 1901 that Mozafar'od - Din Shah (of Qajar) granted the British subject William K. D'Arcy a 60-year oil concession on all areas of the country except the five northern provinces bordering Russia.
3 days ago · In 1901, Mozzafar al-Din Shah Qajar granted a 60-year petroleum search concession to William Knox D'Arcy. [18] : 33 D'Arcy paid £20,000 (equivalent to £2.1 million in 2019 [40] ), according to journalist-turned-historian Stephen Kinzer , and promised equal ownership shares, with 16% of any future net profit, as calculated by the company.
May 22, 2024 · Finally, a historic concession was granted to a British syndicate headed by William Knox d' Arcy to explore for and to produce petroleum anywhere in Iran except in the Russian "sphere of influence" in northern Iran (1901). Native industrial decay
May 6, 2024 · In 1901, William Knox D’Arcy, a millionaire London socialite, negotiated an oil concession with Mozaffar al-Din Shah of the Qajar dynasty. Eventually in 1923, consultant Winston Churchill lobbied the British government to allow the Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) to have exclusive rights to Persian oil resources.
6 days ago · It was bought by Teed's son-in-law Robert Hollond, M.P., in 1847 and became in turn the home of his widow Ellen Julia Hollond, authoress and founder of London's first créche, who died there in 1884, and of William Knox D'Arcy, who made one fortune from Australian gold and another from Iranian oil.
6 days ago · During their investigation, the British Admiralty learned that an Australian mining engineer William Knox D'Arcy—who founded the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC)—had obtained a valuable concession from Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar regarding oil rights in southern Persia.
16 hours ago · A Presumption of Death by Jill Paton Walsh & Dorothy L. Sayers This book is a slightly hybrid effort. When Dorothy L. Sayers stopped writing Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane novels, she did write a few letters featuring Wimsey family members during the Second World War.
