T. E. Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence was born in 1888 in Tremadog, Wales, and grew up in Oxford, where he studied history at Jesus College. From 1910 to 1914 he worked as an archaeologist for the British Museum, mainly at Carchemish in Ottoman Syria,. When the First World War began, he joined the British Army and worked in intelligence in Egypt. From 1916 he became involved in the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule, serving as a liaison officer to Emir Faisal, one of its leaders. He took part in the fighting that ended with the capture of Damascus in October 1918, and the newspapers and lectures of the journalist Lowell Thomas made him famous as 'Lawrence of Arabia'. After the war he worked for the Foreign Office alongside Faisal. Wishing to escape fame, from 1922 he served as an ordinary enlisted man in the Royal Air Force and the army under other names. His account of the revolt, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, was published in 1926, and he also translated Homer's Odyssey. A keen motorcyclist, he died in 1935 after a motorcycle crash in Dorset.

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