John Chancellor

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Robert Chancellor, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO (b. 1870- d. 1952) was a British soldier and colonial official. After a career in the British Army Royal Engineers he became a colonial administrator serving as governor of Mauritius (1911–1916), Trinidad and Tobago (1916–1921) and Southern Rhodesia (1923–1928). He was knighted in 1913. In 1928, he became High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine where he was perceived as being cool to Zionism. While he was in London in 1929, Arab riots protesting Jewish immigration broke out. On his return, he initially condemned Arab attacks but was subsequently less critical. He helped write the Lord Passfield's White Paper of 1930 which aimed to reinterpret the Balfour Declaration in order to back away from a commitment to the creation of a Jewish state. He left Palestine in 1931. On 12 July 1947 he was created a Knight Grand Cross in the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire for services to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.[1]

External links

• World Statesmen - Mauritius
• World Statesmen - Israel

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