Gertrude Bell (82 page)

New York Times
,
383

Newcastle upon Tyne,
4
–5,
7
,
9

Nîmes, France,
55

Nixon, Gen. Sir John,
245

Nolde, Baron Emmanuel,
167

North Eastern Railway (Britain),
4
,
7
,
13
,
61
,
219

Nuri Pasha Said,
361
,
381

Nusr ed Din,
104

O

oil,
244
,
273
,
286

Olliffe, Florence,
see
Bell, Florence

Olliffee, Dr. Sir Joseph,
10
,
24

Olliffe, Lady,
12
–13,
24
,
28
,
46
,
65

Olliffe, Mary,
see
Lascelles Mary,

Olliffe, Tommy,
28
,
33

Ottoman Bank,
170

Ottoman Empire,
95
,
166
,
174
–75,
176
,
181
,
210
,
218
,
238
,
271
,
278
–89,
280

Oxford University: GLB a student,
32
,
37
–41,
42
,
142

archaeological expedition,
411

P

Palestine,
313
,
353
–57

Balfour Declaration,
353
,
356
,
369

discussed at Cairo Conference,
368
–69

see also place names

Palmyra, Syria,
107
,
214

Pankhurst, Christabel (suffragette),
71

Paradis, Marie (climber),
80

Paris, France: Florence Olliffe's early life in,
10
,
11
,
12

GLB in,
1904
,
113
–14

Office of Wounded and Missing Enquiry Department,
220
,
224
,
225

GLB in, with father,
1919
,
304

Hotel Majestic,
348
,
349

Paris Peace Conference,
1919
,
303
,
305
–308,
311
–12,
318
,
319
,
322
,
330
,
347
,
355
,
359

Treaty of Versailles,
357

Parkinson, Dr. Sir Thomas,
406

Parliament, British,
4
,
329
,
407

Pattinson, Margaret (later Lady Bell

grandmother of GLB),
5
,
6
,
33
,
65

Pease, Will,
139

Pergamon, Turkey,
113

Persia,
50
–55,
56
,
285

Persian language,
50
,
57
,
97
,
109

Petra, Jordan,
100
,
101

Philby, Harry St. John Bridger,
268
,
373
–75

photography,
112
,
188

Pichon, Stéphen,
350

Picot, François Georges,
250
,
345
,
350

“pilgrim corpses,”
289

Port Said, Egypt,
160
,
161
,
241
,
313

Poynter, Sir Edward,
16

Q

Queen's College, London,
29
–32

Quz Abu-al-Ir, battle,
336

R

Rabegh, Saudi Arabia,
340
,
341

Railway, North Eastern (in Britain),
4
,
7
,
13
,
61
,
219

railway, Turkish (in Mesopotamia),
213
,
219
,
243
,
245

construction,
209

attacked,
323
,
344

Ramadi, tribal gathering at,
376
–79

Ramsay, Sir William,
110
,
119
–20,
127
–28,
129
,
130
,
137

Rashids,
166
,
190
,
205
,
206
,
215
,
266

Red Barns, Redcar,
5
,
9
,
11
,
13
–14,
18
,
19
,
20
,
21
–22,
54
,
64

ill
.

Red Cross,
222

Wounded and Missing Enquiry Department,
see under
Boulogne

London

Paris

Redcar, North Yorkshire,
5
,
11
,
33

beach,
18
,
21

park,
21

railway stop,
13

Reeves, Mr. (of Royal Geographical Society),
112

Reichenbach Falls, Switzerland,
82

Reinach, Prof. Salomon,
113
–14

religion,
31
,
62
,
63
–64

Revue Archéologique
,
113
,
114

Richmond, Vice-Admiral Sir Herbert,
128
,
405

Ritchie, Anne, Lady,
30
,
257

Ritchie, Sir Richmond, British Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India,
168
,
257

Riu tribe,
206

River Clyde
(ship),
155
,
156
,
157
,
160

Riyadh,
166
,
205

Ibn Saud takes,
266

Robins, Elizabeth (actress),
24
,
49
,
70
,
139

Robinson, William,
68

Rocky Mountains,
64
,
91

Romania,
42
–44

Rosen, Friedrich (German Consul in Jerusalem) and Nina,
96
,
97
,
98
,
102
,
109

Ross, Sir Edward Denison, Director, School of Oriental Studies, London,
56
–57,
58
,
64

Rounton, Yorkshire,
8

East Rounton church,
92

Rounton Grange,
5
,
6
,
54
,
65
,
131
,
134
,
135
,
140
,
408

garden,
66
,
67
–69,
419

described,
64

tapestry,
65
,
419

Doughty-Wylie's visit,
137
–38

in WWI,
217
,
220

Bells leave,
407
,
418

demolished,
418
–19

ill
.

Royal Air Force,
318
,
397
,
400

Royal Flying Corps,
247

Royal Geographical Society,
112
,
165
,
169

Founder's Medal,
286

Gill Memorial Award,
69

Royal Photographic Society,
111

Rumi, Jalal ad-Din,
131

Russell, Bertrand,
3
rd Earl,
10

Russell, Diana,
221
,
222
,
224
,
230

Russell, Flora,
47
,
65
,
69
,
221
,
223
,
224

letters to,
56

Russia:
1914
,
233

and Kurds,
1917
,
310

1918
,
304

Ruwalla tribe,
175
,
189
,
195
,
205

S

Sackville-West, Vita,
412
–13

Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq,
261

Safeh territory, Syria,
117

Safwat Pasha, Treasurer to King Faisal,
391

Saleh village, Syria,
117

Salih (watchman of Hayyil),
196

Salim (nephew of Muhammad alMarawi),
184

Salisbury, Robert Cecil,
3
rd Marquess of, British Prime Minister,
117

Salkhad, Syria,
102
,
103
,
116
,
118

“salon power,” 122

Salt, Jordan,
115

Samuel, Sir Herbert, High Commissioner for Palestine,
356
,
368

San Remo Pact,
345
,
358

Santa Flavia, Sicily,
113

Sargent, John Singer,
406

Sasun Effendi Eskail,
362
,
363
,
366

Saudi Arabia,
206
,
396

Sayyid (of Hayyil),
196
,
201
,
203

Sayyid ibn Murted, Sheikh,
190

Sayyid the Sherari (camel driver),
184
,
190
,
211

School of Oriental Studies, London,
50
,
56

Schreckhorn mountain, Switzerland,
81

Secunderabad Hospital, Le Touquet, France,
226

Sedd-el-Bahr village, Traq,
155
–56,
158

Shahraban, Iraq,
323

Shakespear, Capt. William H. I.,
166
–67,
266
,
374

Shalash, Ramadhan,
322

Shamiyah tribe,
271

Shammar tribe,
166
,
184
,
188
,
190
,
192
,
198
,
301
,
322

Shatt-al-Arab,
244
,
256
,
261
,
387

Shaw, Lt,-Col. G. H.,
234

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
214

Sherarat tribe,
115
,
188
,
190
,
192

Shia tribes,
206
,
279
–80,
292
,
300
,
320
,
321
,
362
,
375

Shield, Mary (later Bell

mother of GLB),
9
,
16
,
163

ill
.

Simeon Stylites,
118

Simla, India,
256

Sinderson, Dr. Sir Harry, Dean, Baghdad Medical College,
405

Spencer, Herbert,
38

Spring-Rice, Sir Cecil, British Ambassador to the U.S.,
297

Stanley, Sylvia (née Henley),
113
,
407
,
408
,
409

Stanley of Alderley, Lady,
10
,
12
,
32

Stanley of Alderley, Lord,
50

Stark, Freya,
123

Steed, Wickham, editor,
The Times
,
351

Storrs, Sir Ronald,
241
–42,
243
,
282
,
314
,
337
,
339
–40,
359
,
399

Strachey, John St. Loe,
220

Strong, S. Arthur,
58

Strutt, E. L.,
92

Strzygowski, Josef,
114
,
119
,
125

Sudan,
291
,
292

Suez Canal,
94

Suffrage and suffragettes,
24
,
69
–72

suicide,
152
–53,
154
,
157
,
413
–14

Sulaiman tribe,
189
–90

Sulaimaniyah, Iraq,
294
,
309
,
310
,
311
,
312
,
400

Sunday Times
(London),
366

Sunni sect,
209
,
279
–80,
292
,
320
,
361
–62

Sykes, Sir Mark,
241
,
250
,
307
,
345
,
355

death,
348

Sykes-Picot Agreement,
307
,
311
,
344
–45,
353

Faisal learns of,
345
,
349
–50

Syria: and WWI outbreak,
218
–19

in Sykes-Picot Agreement,
345
,
349

and Franco-British Declaration,
1918
,
307
,
346
–47,
351

Faisal as King,
357
–59

under French Mandate,
357
–60

see also place names

T

Tafas village, Hejaz, Arabia,
346

Taif, Hejaz, Saudi Arabia,
335
,
337
,
339

Talbot, Mary,
40
,
48

Talib, Sayyid, Iraq Interior Minister,
219
,
247
,
366
–67,
372

Tallal, Sheikh of Tafas,
346

taxation, Iraq,
289
–90,
323
–24,
332

Taylor, A. J. P.,
227

Thesiger, Wilfred,
261

Thomas, Capt. (musican),
369

Thomas, Lowell J.,
366

Thompson, Campbell,
258
,
260
–61

Tigris River,
244
,
245
,
274
,
281

GLB at,
1909
,
110

1914
,
209
,
210

1917
,
289

journey down,
1919
,
303