Edward Keith-Roach (Born 1885
Gloucester
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England
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- died 1954). Keith-Roach was the British Colonial administrator during the British mandate on Palestine, who also served as the governor of
Jerusalem
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from 1926 to 1945 (excluding a period in the 1930s when he was governor of the Galilee). He was posted during a period of great political upheaval, Reuters labelling him ‘the Pasha of Jerusalem’.
The Museum of the Order of St John: The Almoner Altar and the ‘Pasha of Jerusalem’
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References
Edward Keith-Roach is the author of a number of books about Palestine, and an Autobiography:
* (1922):
The Handbook of Palestine
Publisher: Macmillan Company, 1922
* (1930): The Handbook of Palestine and Trans-Jordan Publisher: Macmillan Company, 1930
* (1994): Pasha of Jerusalem: Memoirs of a District Commissioner Under the British mandate Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
1885 births
1954 deaths
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Administrators of Palestine
History of Palestine (region)
Officers of the Order of the White Lion
People from Gloucester
British people in Mandatory Palestine
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