Edward Keith-Roach (Born 1885

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- died 1954) was the British Colonial administrator during the British mandate on Palestine, who also served as the governor of

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from 1926 to 1945 (excluding a period in the 1930s when he was governor of

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). 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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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 Officers of the Order of the British Empire {{British-Empire-stub