Was featured on a £5 coin in a six-coin set commemorating the Centenary of the First World War, produced by the Royal Mint
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Thomas Edward Lawrence was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and Lawrence's ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title used fo…
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culture · British Army officer, diplomat and writer (1888–1935) · anthropologist · archaeologist · autobiographer · writer · military officer · screenwriter · translator · castellologist · spy · diplomat · also Lūrans, T. E. Lawrence, of Arabia Lawrence, John Hume Ross, Thomas Edward Shaw
Born 16 August 1888 · Died 19 May 1935 · Q170596
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2018· 1 entry
2008· 1 entry
Follows a fictional protagonist Agnes Shankin at the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, and her interactions with Lawrence, as well as with Winston Churchill and Gertrude Bell
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2006· 1 entry
Explored Lawrence's reactions to war, and his friendship with Robert Graves
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2002· 1 entry
Lawrence was voted 53rd in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons
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2000· 1 entry
David Stevens published The Waters of Babylon, a novel concerning Lawrence's time in the RAF in which he reflects on his past and enters into a relationship with a (fictional) airman named Slaney
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1997· 1 entry
That Lawrence's apparent masochism and self-loathing might have stemmed from a sense of guilt over losing his brothers Frank and Will on the Western Front, along with many other school friends, while he survived
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1989· 1 entry
Is a fictionalised account of Lawrence's time in Carchemish, and his relationship with James Elroy Flecker
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1986· 1 entry
And the unified trust acquired all the remaining rights to Lawrence's works that it had not owned on the death of A
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1982· 1 entry
Draws directly on Lawrence's writings, particularly Seven Pillars and the collected letters
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1955· 2 entries
Is now standard knowledge – that TEL was illegitimate, that this profoundly troubled him, that he frequently resented his mother's dominance, that such reminiscences as T
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Richard Aldington published Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry, a sustained attack on Lawrence's character, writing, accomplishments, and veracity
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1937· 1 entry
That "medieval researches" were a "dream way of escape from bourgeois England"
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1936· 1 entry
By the Golden Cockerel Press, in 2 volumes, limited to 1000 copies
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1935· 3 entries
Died 1935-05-19.
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Lawrence died at the age of 46 after being injured in a motorcycle crash in Dorset
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“The value of the tribes is defensive only and their real sphere is guerilla warfare. They are intelligent, and very lively, almost reckless, but too individualistic to endure commands, or fight in line, or to help each other.”
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1934· 1 entry
Rode his motorcycle over 200 miles from Manchester to Winchester to meet Eugène Vinaver, editor of the Winchester Manuscript of Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, a book that he admired and carried on his campaigns
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1930· 1 entry
When Chingford Urban District Council acquired the land; it was given to the City of London Corporation which re-erected it in the grounds of The Warren, Loughton
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1927· 1 entry
The debt from Seven Pillars was paid off
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1926· 3 entries
And that was published in March 1927 in both limited and trade editions
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An autobiographical account of his participation in the Arab Revolt
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As a high-priced private subscription edition, printed in London by Herbert John Hodgson and Roy Manning Pike, with illustrations by Eric Kennington, Augustus John, Paul Nash, Blair Hughes-Stanton, and Hughes-Stanton's w
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1922· 1 entry
Lawrence retreated from public life and served as an enlisted man in the Army and Royal Air Force (RAF) until 1935
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1920· 1 entry
After the battle of Maysaloun when the French Forces of General Henri Gouraud entered Damascus under the command of General Mariano Goybet, destroying Lawrence's dream of an independent Arabia
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1919· 1 entry
Was elected to a seven-year research fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, providing him with support while he worked on the book
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1918· 3 entries
Awarded Distinguished Service Order (1918).
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Awarded Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (1918).
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Lowell Thomas went to Jerusalem where he met Lawrence, "whose enigmatic figure in Arab uniform fired his imagination", in the words of author Rex Hall
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1917· 2 entries
Awarded Companion of the Order of the Bath (1917).
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Lawrence proposed a joint action with the Arab irregulars and forces including Auda Abu Tayi, who had previously been in the employ of the Ottomans, against the strategically located but lightly defended town of Aqaba on
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1916· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1916).
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Travelled to Mesopotamia and Arabia on intelligence missions and became involved with the Arab revolt against Ottoman rule
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1914· 2 entries
His father inherited the Chapman baronetcy based at Killua Castle, the ancestral family home in County Westmeath, Ireland
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Lawrence joined the British Army and was stationed at the Arab Bureau, a military intelligence unit in Egypt
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1912· 1 entry
Worked briefly with Flinders Petrie at Kafr Ammar in Egypt
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1910· 3 entries
Lawrence was offered the opportunity to become a practising archaeologist at Carchemish, in the expedition that D
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Studied at Magdalen College (1910).
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Studied at Jesus College (1907–1910).
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1907· 1 entry
“the Chaignons and the Lamballe people complimented me on my wonderful French: I have been asked twice since what part of France I came from”
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1896· 1 entry
Lawrence moved to Oxford, attending the City of Oxford High School for Boys, and read history at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1907 to 1910
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1889· 1 entry
The family moved from Wales to Kirkcudbright, Galloway, in southwestern Scotland, then to the Isle of Wight, then to the New Forest, then to Dinard in Brittany, and then to Jersey
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-08-16.
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