T. E. Lawrence

Also known as Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, of Arabia Lawrence, John Hume Ross, T.E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Shaw

British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat (1888–1935)

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T. E. Lawrence was a British archaeologist, army officer, and diplomat who lived from 1888 to 1935. He is historically significant for his roles in archaeological work, military service, and diplomatic efforts during a transformative period in British history.

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Born: 16 August 1888
Died: 19 May 1935
Works: 76

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The forest giant
T. E. Lawrence to his biographers
Peri tēs tōn Arabōn eusebeias
T. E. Lawrence to his biographer, Liddell Hart
My estimate of the time required to produce an adequate edition of my war narrative "The Seven pillars" has proved wrong

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States

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Total plays: 71

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Quotes

“Whether they are fit for independence or not remains to be tried. Merit is no qualification for freedom. Bulgars, Afghans, and Tahitans have it. Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.”
“This death’s livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.”
“The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me — and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.”
“All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!”
“To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail.”
“You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That's the feeling.”

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Commons category: Thomas Edward Lawrence
date of birth: 1888-08-16
date of death: 1935-05-19
name in native language: Thomas Edward Lawrence
Commons Creator page: Thomas Edward Lawrence
start of work period: 1914-00-00
pseudonym: Laurence d'Arabie
P12749: Letsie III of Lesotho

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to T. E. Lawrence, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) 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 for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities.

Lawrence was born in Tremadog, Carnarvonshire, Wales, the illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Chapman, an Anglo-Irish landowner, and Sarah Lawrence (née Junner), a governess in the employ of Chapman. In 1896, Lawrence moved to Oxford, attending the City of Oxford High School for Boys, and read history at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1907 to 1910. Between 1910 and 1914, he worked as an archaeologist for the British Museum, chiefly at Carchemish in Ottoman Syria.