Harry Luke

Sir Harry Charles Luke

In 1921, he was assistant Governor of Jerusalem and was appointed a member of the Haycraft Commission, which was established by Sir Herbert Samuel to investigate the cause of the riot which started in Jaffa on 1 May that year, and into the affairs of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.^[4]

From 1924 to 1928 Luke held the post of

On his retirement from the Colonial Service in 1943, Luke served for three years as chief representative of the British Council in the Caribbean. He died in Cyprus, where he often spent the winter, on 11 May 1969.

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In 1918 Luke married Joyce Evelyn Fremlin, the daughter of Henry James Leigh Fremlin and his wife, Maud Evelyn Deane (divorced 1949). They had two sons, Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, born in 1919, and Michael Charles Deane Luke, born in 1925.^[8]

Honours

• CMG (1926), Knight (1933), Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (1939)
• GCStJ (1960),
  Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St John^[9]

• The Fringe of the East. Journey through Past and Present Provinces of
  Macmillan & Co
  ), 1913 (First published under the name Harry Charles Lukach)
• The City of the Dancing Dervishes, 1914
• Cypriote Shrines, (Faith Press), 1920
• The Handbook of Cyprus (London), 1920 (together with D.J. Jardine)
• Cyprus under the Turks 1571–1878, (Oxford University Press), 1921
• Report of the commission appointed by the government of Palestine to inquire into the affairs of the orthodox patriarchate of Jerusalem, 1921 (together with Anton Bertram)
• The handbook of Palestine, 1922 (together with Edward Keith Roach)
• Anatolica, (London), 1924
• Mosul and its minorities, 1925
• Prophets, Priests and Patriarchs: sketches of the sects of Palestine and Syria, 1927
• In the Margin of History, 1933
• An Eastern Checkerboard, 1934
• More Moves on an Eastern Checkerboard, 1935
• The Making of Modern Turkey, (
  Macmillan & Co
  ), 1936
• The British Pacific islands, 1944
• From a South Seas Diary, 1938–1942, 1945
• "Aden", in: The British Empire, by Hector Bolitho, 1948.
• Malta, an account and an appreciation, 1949
• Caribbean Circuit, 1950
• Aegean, Cyprus, Turkey, Transcaucasia and Palestine (1914–1924), 1953
• Cities and Men: an autobiography – Vols. 1 & 2, 1953
• Queen Salote and her Kingdom, 1954
• The Tenth Muse: A Gourmet's Compendium, 1954 (a cookery book)
• The Old Turkey and the New: from Byzantium to Ankara, 1955 (First published in 1936 under the title The Making of Modern Turkey)
• Cities and Men: an autobiography, Vol. 3, 1956
• Cyprus: a Portrait and an Appreciation, (
  Harrap
  ), 1957