Edward Keith-Roach
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Edward Keith-Roach CBE (Born 1885 Gloucester, England - died 1954). British Colonial administrator during the British mandate on Palestine. served as the governor of Jerusalem from 1926 to 1945 (excluding a period in the 1930s when he was governor of the Galilee). Nicknamed "Pasha of Jerusalem".
Wrote 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,
