Glubb, Sir John Bagot

Glubb, Sir John Bagot

▪ British army officer
byname  Glubb Pasha  
born April 16, 1897, Preston, Lancashire, Eng.
died March 17, 1986, Mayfield, East Sussex

      British army officer who in 1939–56 commanded the Arab Legion, an army of Arab tribesmen in Transjordan and its successor state, Jordan.

      The son of a British army officer, Glubb attended the Royal Military Academy and then rose steadily in the British army. He served in Europe in World War I and then volunteered for service in Iraq. In 1926 he resigned from the British army to become an administrative inspector for the Iraqi government; he left this post in 1930 and contracted to serve as a brigadier in Transjordan's Arab Legion, an internal police force employed prior to World War II. Glubb became its commander in 1939 and transformed it into a disciplined army that supported the Allies in World War II. After 1951 he raised a national guard to defend Jordan's border against Israeli raids. Arab pressure to eliminate British influence in the Middle East led to his dismissal in 1956. He was knighted in that year.

      Glubb Pasha's writings include Story of the Arab Legion (1948), Britain and the Arabs (1959), The Empire of the Arabs (1963), Syria, Lebanon, Jordan (1967), The Life and Times of Muhammad (1970), Peace in the Holy Land (1971), and Soldiers of Fortune (1973), the last dealing with the Mamlūks. His autobiography, The Changing Seasons of Life, was published in 1983.

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