Glubb pasha biography for kids

British military officer, scholar and author (1897–1986)

Lieutenant-GeneralSirJohn Bagot Glubb, KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC, KStJ, KPM (16 April 1897 – 17 March 1986), known as Glubb Pasha (Arabic: غلوب باشا; and known as Abu Hunaik by the Jordanians), was a British military officer who led and trained Transjordan's Arab Legion between 1939 and 1956 as its commanding general.

During the First World War, he served in France. Glubb has been described as an "integral tool in the maintenance of British control."^[1]

Early life and start of military service

Glubb was born in Preston, Lancashire and educated at Cheltenham College.^{[citation needed]} Glubb's father was Major-General Sir Frederic Manley Glubb, of Lancashire, who had been chief engineer in the British Second Army during the First World War; his mother was Letitia Bagot from County Roscommon.^{[citation needed]} He was a brother of the racing driver Gwenda Hawkes.^[