Career

Keith-Roach was the British Colonial administrator during the British mandate on Palestine, who also served as the governor of Jerusalem from 1926 to 1945 (excluding a period in the 1930s when he was governor of the Galilee). He was nicknamed "Pasha of Jerusalem". Edward Keith-Roach is the author of a number of books about Palestine, and an Autobiography:

(1922): The Handbook of Palestine Publisher: Macmillan Company, 1922

(1930): The Handbook of Palestine and Transport-Jordan Publisher: Macmillan Company, 1930

(1994): Pasha of Jerusalem: Memoirs of a District Commissioner Under the British mandate Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan.