Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox was a British Indian Army officer and Colonial Office administrator in the Middle East. He was one of the major figures in the creation of the current Middle East.
Cox in 1916
Cox and Gertrude Bell with Abdul Aziz Ibn Sa'ud, during the Arab Revolt, Basrah, 1916
Coronation of Faisal as King of Iraq. Faisal seated, to his right are British High commissioner Percy Cox and Lieutenant Kinahan Cornwallis, to his left commander-in-chief of all British troops in the Mesopotamia Commander General Aylmer Haldane.
Gertrude Bell
Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud, known in the West as Ibn Saud, was an Arab political and religious leader who founded Saudi Arabia – the third Saudi state – and reigned as its first king from 23 September 1932 until his death in 1953. He had ruled parts of the kingdom since 1902, having previously been Emir, Sultan, and King of Nejd, and King of Hejaz.
Ibn Saud
His father, Abdul Rahman bin Faisal, Emir of Nejd.
Ibn Saud's signature in a document to Eqab bin Muhaya
Ibn Saud with Percy Cox and Gertrude Bell during the Arab Revolt, Basrah, 1916