Abul Nasir Mirza Qajar (Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot, 1897)

Abul Nasir Mirza Qajar

HISSAM-ES-SALTANEH, ABU’L NASSIR MIRZA―

Is a son of the late Hissam-es-Saltaneh and second cousin of the Shah:―

Fath Ali Shah
Valiahd Abbas Mirza
Muhammad Shah	Hissam-es-Saltaneh, Sultan Murad Mirza, born 1818, died 1882
Nassir-ed-Din Shah	Hissam es Saltaneh. Abu’l Nassir Mirza	Muayyid-ed-Dowleh. Abu’l Fath Mirza
Muzaffar-ed-Din Shah

Commenced his career in the military service. Received his title on his father’s death. Married a daughter of Imad ed Dowleh. Was sent as Envoy Extraordinary to England in 1887, on the occasion of the Queen’s jubilee. Held the governorship of Arabistan in 1891, and that of the Persian Gulf ports from March to December, 1896.

Biographical Notices of Members of the Royal Family, Notables, Merchants, and Clergy, dated December 1897 and compiled by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Philip Picot, Military Attaché at Teheran [Tehran] for the use of the British Legation // Correspondence and Papers on Persia. ― Simla, 1898, p. 27.