Glubb, Sir John Bagot, known as Glubb Pasha 1897-1986
English soldier

He was born in Preston, Lancashire. After service in the Royal Engineers in World War I, he was the first organizer of the police force in the new state of Iraq in 1920. In 1926 he became an administrative inspector in the Iraqi government. Between 1930 and 1956 he organized and commanded British-mandated Transjordan's Arab Legion's Desert Patrol, which became the most efficient Arab army (the Jordanian army) in the Middle East. He was abruptly dismissed from his post following Arab criticism, despite his prestige among the Bedouin and great influence in Arabia. His publications include The Story of the Arab Legion (1948), A Soldier with the Arabs (1957), Britain and the Arabs (1959), The Course of Empire (1963), The Middle East Crisis: A Personal Interpretation (1967). He also wrote Into Battle: A soldier's diary of the Great War (1977).

Bibliography: James Lunt, Glubb Pasha (1984)