Edmund Allenby
From Philosopedia
Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman [1st Viscount] (1861—1936)
A British field marshal in World War I, Allenby was a member of the British Rationalist Press Association. In the course of an appeal for peace (Allenby’s Last Message) at his inauguration as Rector of Edinburgh University shortly before his death, the Viscount ruled out religion as a help.
Allenby had waged the last of the great cavalry campaigns by invading Palestine, capturing Jerusalem, and ending Turkish resistance after the battle of Megiddo (1918). From 1919 to 1925, he served as British high commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan.
Allenby was a member of the Rationalist Press Association, and his Rectorial Address to Edinburgh University, “World Police for World Peace,” is said by Joseph McCabe “to be one of the noblest appeals for peace and progress ever made by a soldier.”
