William Knox D'Arcy (11 October 1849 – 1 May 1917) was a British-Australian businessman who was one of the principal founders of the oil and petrochemical...

Company to take over the concession in 1909. The D'Arcy Concession was cancelled in 1932. William Knox D'Arcy was born in Devon, England in 1849. When he emigrated...

the new company the name National Iranian Oil Company. In 1901, William Knox D'Arcy, a millionaire London socialite, negotiated an oil concession with...

abuse of children William Knox D'Arcy (1849–1917), furthered British interests in developing Persian (Iranian) oil William Alexander D'Arcy (1863–1940), cricketer...

journalist William Knox D'Arcy (1849–1917), British entrepreneur William Knox (footballer, fl. 1927–1934), Scottish professional footballer William Knox (footballer...

the first commercially significant find of oil in the Middle East. William Knox D'Arcy, by contract with Ali-Qoli Khan Bakhtiari, obtained permission to...

in 1908 as well as Venezuela in 1922. He is often associated with William Knox D'Arcy, an English entrepreneur who obtained a concession from the Iranian...

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...

privileges on D’Arcy. The lands in question had belonged in the past to the sheikh, his tribesmen, and their ancestors. In 1908, William Knox D'Arcy discovered...

strike in 1940 William Knox D'Arcy (1849–1917), British oilman D'Arcy Baker (1877–1932), British businessman and racing driver D'Arcy Boulton (born 1946)...

Anglo-Persian Oil Company to succeed the early prospecting in Persia of William Knox D'Arcy with Burmah Oil owning 97%. Burmah Oil became the largest oil company...

Landed (1976), Bad Blood (1981), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982), as William Knox D'Arcy, the Australian oil pioneer in Persia, in Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)...

later joined forces with William Knox D'Arcy, of the Mount Morgan Mining Company, in developing the oil concessions d'Arcy had won from the Persian government...

the residence. The interiors were redesigned by William Morris later that century. William Knox D'Arcy resided at the Hall, where he died in 1917. One...

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British by unilaterally canceling the oil concession awarded to William Knox D'Arcy (and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company), which was slated to expire in...

to Englishman William Knox D'Arcy, who had made a fortune in gold mines in Australia. On 28 May 1901, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah granted D'Arcy the first oil...

particular the initiator of the oil concession granted in 1901 to William Knox D'Arcy which gave birth to British Petroleum. A Catholic, Antoine Kitabgi...

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Company, whose predecessor company bought the concession from William Knox D'Arcy. D'Arcy had negotiated the concession in 1901 with Mozzafar al-Din Shah...

also the winter's resting area of the Bakhtiari tribe, and where William Knox D'Arcy dug Iran's first oil well. Abadan is said to be where the tomb of...

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spawned intense renewed interest in Persia by the British Empire (see William Knox D'Arcy and Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, now BP). Control of Persia remained...

20th century when the Ottoman Empire granted a concession allowing William Knox D'Arcy to explore oil fields in the territories which, after the dissolution...

of 750 million cubic meters of natural gas per day. In May 1901, William Knox D'Arcy was granted a concession by the Shah of Iran to search for oil, which...

Holy Grail. The tapestries were commissioned from Morris & Co. by William Knox D'Arcy in 1890 for his dining room at Stanmore Hall, outside London. Additional...

was discovered in Persia but Mozzaffar ad-Din had already awarded William Knox D'Arcy, a British subject, the rights to oil in most of the country in 1901...

Shah Qajar granted a 60-year petroleum search concession to William Knox D'Arcy.: 33  D'Arcy paid £20,000 (equivalent to £2.6 million in 2023), according...

the house but instead rented it to William Knox D'Arcy, a wealthy mining magnate, from 1899 until 1917 when D'Arcy died. Major Edward Henry Evans-Lombe...

Persia had great oil potential. The British Foreign office selected William Knox D'Arcy, a millionaire investor, and provided him with the reports, promising...