John Bagot Glubb
Born in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine as Godfrey Peter Manley Glubb, he was the son of the noted British officer Sir John Bagot Glubb KCB CMG DSO OBE MC, who, as the chief military advisor to the Jordanian military, became known as Glubb Pasha, and his wife, Muriel Rosemary Forbes. Sir John was commander of the Arab Legion. Godfrey accordingly grew up in Transjordan amongst Bedouin soldiers and declared himself a Muslim as soon as he was old enough to be permitted to do so by Muslim customs. Afterwards, he was known outside his family as Faris Glubb. Faris also had a sister called Naomi, a Bedouin girl adopted in 1944 when she was three months old, and a sister and brother, Palestinian children adopted in 1948, called Mary and John.