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.
The couple had a son, Godfrey (named after the Crusader King Godfrey of Bouillon) born in Jerusalem in 1939, and adopted a Bedouin girl in 1944 and another daughter and son, his daughter from Palestinian refugees and son (named before Atalla) from Jordanian Bedouins in 1947.
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Their son, Godfrey, converted to Islam as a young man and took the name of Faris, becoming a prominent journalist and researcher into the Palestinian cause.
Anna Faris | Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris | Faris Glubb | Sekolah Menengah Sains Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra | Hamid Juma Faris Jouri al-Saeedi | George W. Faris | Faris Haroun | Peter Faris | John Bagot Glubb | Iyman Faris |