'[1] Samuel Hennell was tutored preparatory to entering service with the East India Company by Mr Williams of Edmonton.
[2] He was appointed assistant resident for the Persian Gulf, based in Bushire, in 1826,[3] taking up his post six years after the British punitive expedition against the Al Qasimi at Ras Al Khaimah of 1819 and the conclusion of the subsequent General Maritime Treaty of 1820.
This then obliged the Resident to enforce the truce and act to obtain reparations for any injuries inflicted by one Ruler's subjects on another's.
[5] Hennell subsequently reported how news “came in from all quarters of the joy and satisfaction diffused amongst the inhabitants of the whole line of the Arabian Coast of the Gulf on the intelligence reaching them of the establishment of the Truce.”[4] Pronounced a great success, the Truce was to be renewed in subsequent years, becoming a year-round agreement from 1838 onwards.
[13] Both of Anne and Samuel Hennell's sons travelled to serve in the Indian army and, in 1879, both were killed during the Afghan War.