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Major-General Frederick Gerard Peake, CMG
Order of St Michael and St George

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, CBE
Order of the British Empire

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 (12 June 1886–30 March 1970), known as Peake Pasha, was a British Army
British Army

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 and police
Police

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 officer and creator of the Arab Legion
Arab Legion

The Arab Legion was the regular army of Transjordan and then Jordan in the early part of the 20th Century....
.

Peake graduated from the Royal Military College Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington's Regiment in 1906.

In Autumn 1920 Peake left the Egyptian Camel Corps to report on the security situation in Palestine
Palestine

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Major-General Frederick Gerard Peake, CMG
Order of St Michael and St George

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George IV of the United Kingdom whilst he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III of the United Kingdom....
, CBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (12 June 1886–30 March 1970), known as Peake Pasha, was a British Army
British Army

The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
 and police
Police

Police are agents or agencies, usually of the executive , empowered to enforce the law and to ensure public and social order through the legitimized use of force....
 officer and creator of the Arab Legion
Arab Legion

The Arab Legion was the regular army of Transjordan and then Jordan in the early part of the 20th Century....
.

Peake graduated from the Royal Military College Sandhurst and was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington's Regiment in 1906.

In Autumn 1920 Peake left the Egyptian Camel Corps to report on the security situation in Palestine
Palestine

Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is derived from a name used already much earlier for a narrower geographical region, mainly along the coastal region....
. The situation was found to be insufficient and in October the same year Peake, then a Lieutenant-Colonel, was ordered by the British High Commissioner in Jerusalem to form two small police forces. Those were:

  1. The Mobile Force, 100 men to guard the Jerusalem
    Jerusalem

    Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
    -Amman
    Amman

    Amman , sometimes spelled Ammann , is the Capital city of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, a city of 2,525,000 inhabitants , and the administrative capital and commercial center of Jordan....
     road.
  2. 50 men to help the British official posted to Kerak east of the Dead Sea
    Dead Sea

    For the Brian Keene book of the same name, see Dead Sea The Dead Sea is a salt lake between Israel and the West Bank to the west, and Jordan to the east....
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He became a Major-General in the army of Transjordan
Transjordan

The Emirate of Transjordan was a former Ottoman Empire territory incorporated into the British Mandate of Palestine in 1921 as an autonomous political division under Abdullah I of Jordan....
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In 1939, he retired and was succeeded by Glubb Pasha. To the Jordanian
Jordanian

Jordanian may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to Jordan, an Arab country in Southwest Asia* A person from Jordan, or of Jordanian descent....
s he became known as "Peake Pasha".

His daughter, Julia Grace Peake, was born on July 12, 1941. She first married David Grant, and second Sir Hugh Arbuthnot, 7th Bt.

External links & references

  • James Lunt, , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005, accessed 4 June 2007


Bibliography

  • A history of Jordan and its tribes, University of Miami Press, 1958
  • Change at St. Boswells (the story of a border village), John McQueen and Son, 1961


See also

  • Arab Legion
    Arab Legion

    The Arab Legion was the regular army of Transjordan and then Jordan in the early part of the 20th Century....
  • Transjordan
    Transjordan

    The Emirate of Transjordan was a former Ottoman Empire territory incorporated into the British Mandate of Palestine in 1921 as an autonomous political division under Abdullah I of Jordan....