Gertrude Bell (81 page)

referendum,
1921
,
376

British-Iraq Treaty,
1922
,
389
,
391
,
393
,
404
,
411

elections,
1923
,
405

Organic Law,
393
,
404
,
412

tripartite treaty with Britiain and Turkey,
412

see also
Baghdad

Mesopotamia

Iraq Museum,
xviii
,
410
,
411

“Gertrude Bell Room,”
416

Ironside, Gen. Sir Edmund, C in C.

British Forces, Persia, later C.I.G.S.

and 1st Baron,
366

Istabulat, Iraq,
289

J

Jaf tribe,
309

Jafar Pasha el Askeri, Iraq Minister of Defence, Ambassador to Great Britain,
344
,
361
,
362
,
363
,
366

Jamal Zahawi,
375

James, Henry,
49

The Awkward Age
,
49

Jaudat Bey,
395

Jemal Pasha, Gen. Mehmed, Turkish

Governor-General of Syria,
337
–38,
344
,
369

Jersualem,
95
–96

GLB's early visits,
67
,
94
,
96
–99,
107
,
109

Hotel Jerusalem,
96
–97

Jews in,
96
,
354
–55

1919
,
314

Jewish Legion,
355

Jews,
95
,
96
,
313
–14,
353
–56

Jidda, Saudi Arabia,
337
,
339
,
341
,
345

Jof, Saudi Arabia,
189
,
200
,
205

John, Augustus,
352

Jones, Miss (hospital matron),
269
,
317
–18

Jordan Valley,
99
,
114
–15

judicial system, Iraq,
291
–92

K

Kadhimain, Iraq,
320
–21

Karbala, Iraq,
124
,
207
,
247
,
282
,
294

pilgrim burial at,
289
;
1917
,
289
,
300

Kemal, Ismail,
120
n

Kemal, Mustafa (Ataturk), President of Republic of Turkey,
396

Kerak, Jordan,
100
,
239

Khanikin (Khaniqin, Khanakin), Iraq,
309
–11

King Faisal's farm,
388
,
409

Kharaneh castle, Jordan,
177

Kiamil,
120
n

Kiepert, Heinrich (cartographer),
97

Kifri, Iraq,
323

Kirkuk, Iraq,
309
,
311
,
312
,
400

Kish, Iraq,
411

Kitchener, Field Marshal Horatio H., 1st Earl of Khartoum,
208

and Arab Revolt,
243
,
248
,
252
,
254
,
309
,
337

Klug, Miss (governess),
17
,
18
,
26

Konya, Anatolia: GLB in,
1905
,
114
,
119
;

1907
,
127
,
128
,
130

Young Turks in,
132

refugees in,
134

Kuntze, Helene,
86

Kurdistan,
312
,
322
,
381
,
394
,
400
–401

Kurds,
282
,
300
,
312
,
322
,
381

revolt against Turks,
1917
,
309
–11

at Paris Peace Conference,
312

after Cairo Conference,
400
–401

Kut (Kut el Amara), Mesopotamia: siege and capture,
262
–63,
272
,
387

rebuilt,
288

L

Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford,
32
,
37
–41,
42
,
142

Lake, Gen. Sir Percy, C. in C. Indian Expeditionary force D,
259

Lake of Egerdir, Turkey,
128

Langridge, Edith,
40

Lascelles, Billy,
42
,
43
,
45
,
48
,
139

Lascelles, Florence,
21
,
42
,
50
,
76
,
297

Lascelles, Sir Frank, British Ambassador to Germany,
13
,
42
,
50
,
75
,
76

Lascelles, Gerald,
42
,
54

Lascelles, Mary (
née
Olliffe),
13
,
42
–45,
50
,
52

death,
57
,
75

Laurence, Alec,
71

Lausanne, Treaty of,
399
–400

Law, Andrew Bonar, British Prime Minister,
404

Lawrence, T. E.,
xvi
,
xvii
,
181
–82,
258
,
260
,
302

at Carchemish,
125
,
169

in Cairo,
161
,
240
,
242
,
246
,
247
,
248
–49,
250
,
254

in Basra, and siege of Kut,
263
,
387

and Arab Revolt,
338
,
339
–44,
385

at Paris Peace Conference,
347
,
349
,
350
,
351

subsequently,
365
,
366

at Cairo Conference,
3
,
366
–67

later career,
415

writes of GLB,
387
–88,
415

Seven Pillars of Wisdom
,
338
,
340
,
342
,
387
,
401

ill
.

Lawrence, Will (brother of T. E.),
161
,
247

League of Nations,
306
–307,
329
,
369
,
389
,
393

Boundary Commission,
400
,
411

Library, Baghdad Public,
379

Lloyd, George Ambrose, 1st Baron,
241

Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl of Dwyfor, British Prime Minister,
34
,
71
,
305
,
349
,
350
,
353
,
355
,
357

London: No. 10 Belgrave Terrace,
54

GLB visits
1898
,
61

1907
,
131

1912–13
,
132
–33

1919
,
303

1925
,
406
–407

Half Moon Street,
132
,
140
,
149
,
232

National Portrait Gallery,
69

parks,
68

No. 95 Sloane Street,
10
,
12
,
61
,
65
,
145
,
160
,
208
,
235
,
406
,
407

Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Department,
234
,
235
,
236

School of Oriental Studies,
50
,
56

Louis of Orléans, Prince,
79

Lowther, Milly,
303

Lulua (of Hayyil),
195
,
203

Lutyens, Sir Edwin (architect),
255

M

Macmillan, Margaret,
347

MacMunn, Gen. Sir George,
257
–58,
261

Madeba, Jordan,
176

Mahan, Alfred Tahyer,
94

Makinnon, Dr.,
215

Malcolm, Ian,
353

Mallet, Sir Louis, British Ambassador to Turkey,
168
,
178
–79,
181

mandrake,
67

Manners for Women
,
60

Marius (mountain guide),
76
,
77
,
78

Marshall, Captain: murdered,
300

Marshall, Herbert (cousin of GLB),
32

Marshall, Horace (cousin of GLB),
21
,
32

GLB's letters to,
43
,
50
–51

Marshall, Thomas,
21
,
112

Marshall, Lt. Gen. Sir William,
278

Mathon (mountain guide),
76
,
77
–78

Matterhorn mountain, Switzerland,
91
–92

Maude, Gen. Sir Stanley,
272
,
276
–77,
278
,
310

GLB writes of,
276
–77

May, Major,
284

McMahon, Sir Henry, High Commissioner for Egypt,
239
,
250

correspondence with Hussain,
243
,
248
,
345
,
359

Mecca, Saudia Arabia,
243
,
244
,
335
,
337
,
339
,
341

Medina, Saudia Arabia,
338
,
341

Meije mountain, France,
74
,
76
–77

Meissner, Heinrich August (railway engineer),
209

Melos, Greece,
112
–13

Mesopotamia: definition,
244
,
277

and India,
244
,
245
,
249
,
250

under Turkish rule,
279

British rule,
288

Department of Pious Bequests,
294

judicial system,
291
–92

The Arab of Mesopotamia
,
270

Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia
,
xix
,
293
,
310
,
329
,
371
,
445
n

“Self-Determination in Mesopotamia”,
308

see also place names

Mesopotamian Campaign,
244
,
256
,
262
–63

Mesopotamian League,
322

Mhailam (escort),
192

Middlesbrough, Yorkshire,
8
,
9
,
11
,
12
,
20
,
35
,
72

Port Clarence,
4
,
7
,
9
,
60
,
65

railway station,
13

Washington New Hall,
5
,
6
,
9

Winter Garden,
36

Miletus, Turkey,
128

Mill, John Stuart,
62
,
70
,
73

Misma mountains, Saudi Arabia,
167
,
191
,
192

Missing Sewell, Elizabeth,
25

Moab hills, Jordan,
99

Mons campaign,
223

Mont Blanc mountain, France,
80

Montagu, Sir Edwin, British Secretary of State for India,
330
–31,
353
,
355

Montessori, Maria,
24

Morris, William,
4
,
5
,
18
,
65

Mosul, Mesopotamia,
300
,
322
,
381
,
400
,
411

1917
,
289

1918
,
311

Mount Grace Priory, near Northallerton, Yorkshire,
6
,
7
,
142
,
407
,
414
,
418

Mount Hermon, Palestine,
215

mountaineering,
74
–93,
121

Mshetta, Jordan,
176

Mudi (wife of Muhammad ibn Rashid),
195
,
202
–203,
204

Muhammad (Druze muleteer),
99
,
102

Muhammad (Hasineh Sheikh),
108

Muhammad (Kurdish Sheikh),
400
–401

Muhammad Abu Tayyi, Sheikh,
187
,
188

Muhammad al-Bessam,
169
,
170

Muhammad al-Marawi (guide),
169
,
170
,
171
–72,
173
,
184
,
192
,
194
,
196
–97,
201

Muhammad Beg (of Amman),
178

Muhammad Hussain Khan,
207

Muhammad ibn Rashid,
195
,
199

Musa, Wady,
101

Mustafa (farm worker),
184

Mustafa Pasha, Khanikin chief,
310

N

Najaf, Iraq,
110
,
205
,
207
,
247
,
294
,
320

pilgrim burial at,
289

in
1917
,
300

Naji, Haji,
370
,
384
,
414

Namoud (merchant),
115

Namrud, Abu,
178

Naqib
see
Abdul Rahman, Sayyid

National Portrait Gallery,
69

Nasiriyeh, Iraq,
262

Nefud desert,
167
,
171
,
192
–93,
197
,
207

Nejd desert,
107
,
110
,
167
,
170
,
181
,
191
,
192
,
211
,
266