Frederick Peake

Frederick Peake
Frederick Peake
	Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Commander of the Venerable Order of Saint John; Officer of the Order of the Nile (Egypt); Order of Istiqlal (Jordan)
Other work	Policeman, author

CStJ (12 June 1886 – 30 March 1970), known as Peake Pasha, was a British Army and police officer and creator of the Arab Legion

.

Military career

The son of Lieutenant Colonel Walter Peake, of Melton Mowbray, Peake was born at Epsom on 12 June 1886. He attended Stubbington House School, Fareham,^[1] and graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1906, being commissioned into the Duke of Wellington's Regiment. He served in India from 1908 to 1913.

During the

First World War, Peake served with the Royal Flying Corps in Salonica, and was also an officer serving with the Imperial Camel Corps, part of the British Imperial Egyptian Army, seeing action in the Darfur Expedition. In 1917 he was awarded the Order of the Nile, Fourth Class.^[1]^[2] He served for a time under Lawrence of Arabia

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In September 1920 Peake, then a captain, left the Imperial Camel Corps to report on the security situation in Transjordan. Security was found to be inadequate, and in October the same year Peake, by then promoted to lieutenant colonel, was ordered by the High Commissioner of Palestine to form two small police forces:

The Mobile Force, 100 men to guard the Palestine–Amman road.
50 men to support the British
Al Karak, east of the Dead Sea
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During the summers of 1921 and 1923, Peake organised the 150-man Reserve Mobile Force, which formed the nucleus of the

Wahhabi raids in 1922 and the Adwan Rebellion in 1923. Peake became a major general in the army of the Emirate of Transjordan

.

Private life

In 1937, Peake married Elspeth MacLean Ritchie, younger daughter of Norman Ritchie, of St Boswells, and they had one daughter.^[1]^[3] In 1939, he retired and was succeeded by John Bagot Glubb. To the Jordanians he became known as "Peake Pasha".

In retirement, Peake settled at Hawkslee, St Boswells, Roxburghshire, his wife's home village. She died in 1967.

Sir Hugh Arbuthnot, 7th Baronet

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Selected publications

Peake, F. (1934). A history of Trans-Jordan and its tribes. Vol. 1. Amman.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Peake, F. (1934). A history of Trans-Jordan and its tribes. Vol. 2. Amman.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
A History of Jordan and its Tribes, University of Miami Press, 1958^[1]
Change at St Boswells (the story of a border village), John McQueen and Son, 1961^[1]
Arab Command. The Biography of Lieutenant-Colonel F. G. Peake Pasha C.M.G., C.B.E., Hutchinson & Co., 1942^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g 'PEAKE, Frederick Gerard', in Who Was Who (A. & C. Black); online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014, PEAKE, Frederick Gerard^{[permanent dead link]}. Retrieved 27 July 2016 (subscription site)
^ The London Gazette, 31 August 1917
^ Frederick Peake at ThePeerage.com

James Lunt, ‘Peake, Frederick Gerard (1886–1970)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005. Retrieved 4 June 2010

External links

[who-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g 'PEAKE, Frederick Gerard', in Who Was Who (A. & C. Black); online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014, PEAKE, Frederick Gerard^{[permanent dead link]}. Retrieved 27 July 2016 (subscription site)

[2] The London Gazette, 31 August 1917

[3] Frederick Peake at ThePeerage.com

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