Arthur Grenfell Wauchope

CIE DSO (1 March 1874 – 14 September 1947) was a British soldier and colonial

commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1893.^[2] He transferred to the 2nd Battalion Black Watch in January 1896.^[2]

mentioned in despatches and appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for his services.^[3]

Aide de camp to Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Cape Colony.^[5]

Northern Ireland District in 1929.^[2]

Commander-in-Chief for Palestine and Trans-Jordan in 1931.^[2] Wauchope's administration was generally sympathetic to Zionist aspirations. By 1941 the former chief immigration officer for the Mandate, Albert Montefiore Hyamson, could write in his book Palestine: A Policy that "the first four years of his [Wauchope's] term were the heyday of Zionist history in Palestine." Not only did immigration go up threefold (the Jewish population increased from 174,606 to 329,358), but Jews also increased their land holdings (in 1931 they increased their land holdings by 18,585 dunams or 4,646 acres, while in 1935 they increased them by 72,905), and finally Jewish business and commerce enjoyed an economic boom.^[6] He also promoted public works and civil engineering schemes but was regarded as lax by some of his political colleagues at the early stages of the Arab rebellion.^[1] However, Wauchope oversaw mass detention throughout the revolt and sought to impose "collective punishment" on Palestinian cities and towns. This culminated in the June 1936 demolition of the Old City of Jaffa which rendered 6,000 Palestinians homeless.^[7] Wauchope retired in 1938.^[2]