Frederick Peake

Major-General Frederick Gerard Peake, CMG, CBE (12 June 1886–30 March 1970), known as Peake Pasha, was a British Army and police officer and creator of the Arab Legion.

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. 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:

# The Mobile Force, 100 men to guard the Jerusalem-Amman road.
# 50 men to help the British official posted to Kerak east of the Dead Sea.

He became a Major-General in the army of Transjordan.

In 1939, he retired and was succeeded by Glubb Pasha. To the Jordanians 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

* [http://homepages.force9.net/rothwell/trans-jo.htm The Arab Legion]
*James Lunt, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35429 ‘Peake, Frederick Gerard (1886–1970)’] , "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

ee also

*Arab Legion
*Transjordan