Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman III Farmaian

Abt 1889 - 1937  (48 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 4 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman III Farmaian
  Birth	Abt 1889
  Gender	Male
  Death	Apr 1937
  Siblings	5 Siblings
  + 1. Firouz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh Farman III Farmaian,   b. Abt 1889   d. Apr 1937  (Age 48 years) ▻ Daftar ol-Moluk Khanoum + 2. Abbas Mirza Farman Farmaian,   b. 1890   d. 1935, Berlin, Brandenburg, Deutschland  (Age 45 years) ▻ Zahra Soltan,  m. 1911 + 3. Mohammad Vali Mirza Farman Farmaian   d. Yes, date unknown ▻   4. Nezam-ed-Din Mirza Farman Farmaian   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Mohammad Ja'ffar Mirza Farman Farmaian   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Mohammad Hossein Mirza Firouz Farmaian   d. Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I670797	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma Farmaian,   b. 1859   d. Nov 1939 (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Ezzat ed-Dowleh Mirza,   b. 1873   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F295227	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Daftar ol-Moluk Khanoum   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Muzaffar Firouz Farman Farmaian   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Lili Firouz Farmaian   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Iradj Mirza Firouz Farmaian   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Sharoukh Mirza Firouz Farmaian,   b. 1925   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F295218	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2009

  
  

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  Spoke 5 languages: Persian, Arabic, French, English, ?. Attended Lycee Jansen in Paris . As surnames had not been established in Persia at the time of his studies in France, he registered himself as 'Firouz Firouz', using his grandfather's name as his surname. Afterwards, when the Persian government made having surnames mandatory by law, his father Prince Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma picked the surname Farmanfarmaian for himself and his children. However, Nosrat-ed-Dowleh and his sister, held on to the surname 'Firouz' and became known as Firouz Firouz and Maryam Firouz respectively. Minister of Foreign Affairs under Ahmad Shah Qajar ; architect of the ill-fated 1919 Anglo-Persian Agreement ; candidate for accession to the Qajar throne after Soltan Ahmad Shah's exile and removal; in 1921, during the coup which brought Reza Shah to power he spent three months in the Qasr-e-Qajar jail with his father and younger brother Abbas Mirza Salar Lashgar while Reza Shah consolidated his power base. Following his release he continued his public life for nine more years serving as a member of parliament, provincial governor, minister of justice, and minister of finance. In June 1930, while he was acting loyally as Finance Minister for Reza Shah , the Shah had him arrested for accepting a bribe in the amount of five hundred tomans (about 100 dollars today). This episode deeply alarmed Nosrat Dowleh's father, Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma , and warned his son to curb his extravagant princely lifestyle. The warnings were not heeded. Towards the end of 1936 Reza Shah had grown more tyrannical and unpredictable than in the past. Eventually, Nosrat Dowleh was arrested by the Tehran police chief, Mokhtari and held in a Tehran prison. Despite pleas from the Farman Farma family he was not released, but instead transferred to a guarded house in Semnon , a village about eighty miles east of Tehran , where he was held incommunicado. In 1937, news returned to Nosrat Dowleh's father that he was dead. The shah had ordered that he be buried without any ceremonies or mention in the press. Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma ensured that his son was buried in the Shrine of Shah Abdol Azim where many others leading personalities of the Qajar dynasty had been buried. Not long after his death Reza Shah seized Nosrat Dowleh's compound. He had also been given time to write a letter to his twelve year old son before he was killed. In later years it became clear that he had been killed in his room by strangulation under the supervision of a doctor named Ahmadi. In 1940, after Reza Shah abdicated for his son, the courts found Dr. Ahmadi guilty of killing dozens of political prisoners and sentenced him to death by hanging. Mottaki was sentenced to a long prison term. Nosrat-ed-Dowleh translates to "Illumination of the State"