12 Facts About Harry Luke

Harry Luke served in Barbados, Cyprus, Transcaucasia, Sierra Leone, Palestine, Malta, the British Western Pacific Territories and Fiji.

Harry Luke is the author of some books on several of these countries.

Harry Luke was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Oxford, of which he became an Honorary Fellow in 1952, and converted to Anglicanism.

Harry Luke became aide-de-camp the following year, and briefly acted as Colonial Secretary for a few months.

Harry Luke subsequently served as private secretary to the High Commissioner of Cyprus and as commissioner of Famagusta.

In 1919 Harry Luke was appointed Political Officer to the Admiral of the Fleet, Sir John de Robeck.

From 1924 to 1928 Harry Luke held the post of Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone.

Harry Luke was appointed to be the acting High Commissioner to the Government of Palestine.

Harry Luke assumed this position on 19 July 1928 and held it until 6 December 1928.

On his retirement from the Colonial Service in 1943, Harry Luke served for three years as chief representative of the British Council in the Caribbean.

Harry Luke died in Cyprus, where he often spent the winter, on 11 May 1969.

In 1918 Harry Luke married Joyce Evelyn Fremlin, the daughter of Henry James Leigh Fremlin and his wife, Maud Evelyn Deane.