Thomas Haycraft

Sir Thomas Haycraft was the Chief Justice of Palestine from 1921 to 1927. He served as the head of the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry which looked into the causes of the Arab rioting in Palestine in that year.

Haycraft was a barrister and had worked for the British Colonial Service before coming to Palestine.

Sources

• Sachar, Howard A. A History of Israel from Zionism to the Present. Second Edition. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996) p. 125
• Daniel Monk. An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestinian Conflict - Terrible Episodes. (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2002) p. 156