Edward Keith-Roach
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Edward Keith-Roach CBE
Edward Keith-Roach CBE (Born 1885 Gloucester, England - died 1954). Keith-Roach was the British Colonial administrator during the British mandate on Palestine, who also served as the governor of Jerusalem 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’.[1]
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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,
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- 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