Personal Life
He married Elspeth MacLean Ritchie, daughter of Norman Ritchie, in 1937. In 1939, he retired and was succeeded by John Bagot Glubb. To the Jordanians he became known as "Peake Pasha".
His daughter, Julia Grace Peake, was born on June 6, 1941. She first married David Renwick Grant, and second the late Sir Hugh Arbuthnot, 7th Bt.
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