Brigadier General Neville Travers Borton CMG (1870-1938), known in

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as Borton Pasha, was a

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officer and

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, most famous for being Military Governor of

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when

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entered the city in December 1917.

Biography

Born on 29 June 1870, Neville Travers Borton was educated at

Bedford School Bedford School is a 7–18 Single-sex education, boys Public school (United Kingdom), public school in the county town of Bedford in England. Founded in 1552, it is the oldest of four independent schools in Bedford run by the Harpur Trust. Bed ...

and at the

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. He received his first commission in the

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in 1890, and transferred to the

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on 5 April 1899. He joined the Sudanese Civil Service in 1899, and the Egyptian Civil Service in 1905. He was

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between 1907 and 1924, and was appointed as a

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. In 1917, General Edmund Allenby appointed Borton as Military Governor of

, one of the four Military Governors of the

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, with the rank of Brigadier General. Brigadier General Borton led Allenby's procession when he entered Jerusalem at noon on 11 December 1917. He was succeeded as Military Governor of

by Sir Ronald Storrs. Brigadier General Neville Travers Borton was appointed a

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in 1917. He retired in 1924, and died on 1 June 1938, aged 67.''

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'', 16 November 1923, p. 13

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Borton, Neville 1870 births 1938 deaths People educated at Bedford School Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst British Army personnel of World War I Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Egyptian civil servants Administrators of Palestine Pashas British expatriates in Egypt