High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan

The High Commissioner for Palestine was the highest ranking authority representing the United Kingdom in the mandated territories of Palestine and Transjordan under the British Mandate for Palestine. In 1928, a separate post of High Commissioner for Trans-Jordan, the holder of which was responsible for overseeing Transjordan, was created; however, this post was always held simultaneously by the High Commissioner for Palestine.

The British representative to Amman was "responsible to the high commissioner in his role as representative of the mandatory power, but not in his capacity as head of the Palestine administration."[1]

They were based in Jerusalem. The office commenced on 1 July 1920, before the commencement of the Mandate on 29 September 1923, and replaced the British military occupation under the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, which had operated in Palestine in 1917–1918. The office ceased with the expiration of the Mandate on 15 May 1948.

List of High Commissioners for Palestine and High Commissioners for Trans-Jordan

Name Term start Term end
Sir Herbert Louis Samuel1 July 192030 June 1925
Field Marshal Lord Plumer25 August 192531 July 1928
Sir Harry Charles Luke
(acting)		31 July 19286 December 1928
Sir John Chancellor6 December 19281 November 1931
Sir Mark Aitchison Young
(acting)		1 November 193120 November 1931
Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope20 November 19311 March 1938
William Denis Battershill
(acting for Wauchope)		September 193724 November 1937
Sir Harold MacMichael3 March 193830 August 1944
Field Marshal The Viscount Gort1 November 19445 November 1945
Sir Alan Cunningham21 November 194514 May 1948

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References

  1. ↑ Mary Christina Wilson (28 June 1990). King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan. Cambridge University Press. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-0-521-39987-6. For example, his desire that Transjordan be totally dissociated from Palestine was accomplished by the fine distinction of making Philby responsible to the high commissioner in his role as representative of the mandatory power, but not in his capacity as head of the Palestine administration. (Privately, London held the reservation that 'the door would not be closed to a possible rapprochement between the two administrations in the future.)
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