Neville Travers Borton

Brigadier General Neville Travers Borton CMG (1870-1938), known in Egypt as Borton Pasha, was a British Army officer and civil servant, most famous for being Military Governor of Jerusalem when General Allenby entered the city in December 1917.

Born on 29 June 1870, Neville Travers Borton was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

[1] In 1917, General Edmund Allenby appointed Borton as Military Governor of Jerusalem, one of the four Military Governors of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, with the rank of Brigadier General.

Brigadier General Borton led Allenby's procession when he entered Jerusalem at noon on 11 December 1917.

[2] He was succeeded as Military Governor of Jerusalem by Sir Ronald Storrs.