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	Lawrence, Thomas Edward - OnlineEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lawrence was born in Tremadoc, Caernarfonshire, North Wales, of mixed English and Irish ancestry.
		His father, Thomas Chapman, was a minor member of the nobility who had escaped a tyrannical wife to live with a maid, with whom he had five sons in close succession.
		Lawrence was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, from where he graduated with First Class Honours largely on account of a highly-acclaimed thesis entitled The influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture – to the end of the 12th century.
	www.neareasternarchaeology.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Lawrence,_T._E. (699 words)

	T. E. Lawrence -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lawrence was educated at (Click link for more info and facts about Jesus College, Oxford) Jesus College, Oxford, from where he graduated with First Class Honours largely on account of a highly-acclaimed thesis entitled The influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture – to the end of the 12th century.
		In January 1914 Woolley and Lawrence were co-opted by the British military as an archaeological smokescreen for a British military survey of the (A peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea) Sinai peninsula.
		Lawrence himself, perhaps dissembling, maintained that "S.A." was a composite character.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/t/t._e._lawrence.htm (1881 words)

	Thomas Edward Lawrence
		He was called Lawrence of Arabia after cooperating with Arab forces during the World War 1, where he was strongly involved in the actions that drove the Ottomans out of the Arabian peninsula and the Levant.
		Lawrence was a strong supporter and promoter for the establishment of an Arab state, but his efforts did not lead to the intended result.
		Lawrence's fame is out of measure with his real importance, and has especially been triggered by the idolizing Oriental classic movie Lawrence of Arabia of 1962.
	i-cias.com /e.o/lawrence_t_e.htm (430 words)

	Lawrence of Arabia
		Lawrence's most famous writing, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, is an autobiographical account of a young British soldier during the first World War.
		Lawrence's descriptions of the terrain and climate are amazingly accurate, the result of many years of study and personal contact.
		Lawrence was such an intriguing personality that one can not help but read into his extensive correspondence with Charlotte some degree of romantic interest, adding even more mystery to his life.
	johnmtaylor.com /btgw/lawrence.htm (1421 words)

	AllRefer.com - T. E. Lawrence (Middle Eastern History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Lawrence had meanwhile become something of a legendary figure, but in 1922 he enlisted, under the name of Ross, as a mechanic in the Royal Air Force.
		When Lawrence's identity was discovered (1923), he went into the tank corps; in 1925 he rejoined the air force.
		In Paris in 1919, Lawrence began to write a narrative of his Arabian adventures, but he lost most of the manuscript and had to rewrite the whole without his notes, which he had destroyed.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/LawrencTE.html (536 words)

	Wales genealogy links
		T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was born as Thomas Edward Lawrence in Tremadoc, Caernarfonshire in 1888.
		Edward II was born in 1284 at Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfonshire.
		The poet Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea in 1914.
	www.genealogyinengland.com /International/wales.htm (1017 words)

	The Enigma of Thomas Edward Lawrence
		Lawrence was born in North Wales on 15 August 1888.
		Lawrence at the head of the Arab armies had captured Damascus and installed a provisional Arab government with himself as head, deputizing for King Feisal.
		Lawrence moved in a wide circle of influential people, many of whom were associated with the Round Table and other quasi-political groups.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v02/v02p283_Hansen.html (1660 words)

	Thomas Edward Lawrence
		Lawrence became famous after the First World War because of the remarkable role he had played while serving as a British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18.
		The romantic story of Lawrence's campaigns in Arabia and Allenby's in the Holy Land appealed strongly to a British public sated with horrific accounts of trench warfare on the Western Front.
		Lawrence himself had little wish to be remembered as a war hero: he could hardly bear to think about his wartime role.
	desertsail.com /anciensite/arabia/lawrence1.html (586 words)

	The importance of T. E. Lawrence by David Fromkin
		Lawrence also was converted to the views of the then-commander of Hussein’s forces—a former officer in the Ottoman army, brought in by the British to try to make soldiers out of Hussein’s tribesmen—that the bedouin of the Hejaz would be better employed in fighting a guerrilla war than in trying to fight a conventional one.
		Lawrence’s obsession with guilt as a personal theme runs parallel to the political one throughout Seven Pillars, which begins in a Nietzschean spirit with the author’s observation that in the extreme circumstances of the desert war he and his companions were driven to actions that in normal circumstances would be immoral.
		Lawrence claimed that, unknown to others, he had been taken prisoner for a time on the night of November 21–22, 1917, in a place called Deraa, and was homosexually assaulted, bayoneted, and beaten by command of a sadistic Turkish commander.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/10/sept91/fromkin.htm (7182 words)

	T.E. Lawrence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Thomas Edward Lawrence was an important British war hero of the Arab Revolt, which took place during World War I from 1916 to 1918.
		T.E. Lawrence was born in Wales in 1888 to Sir Thomas Chapman and governess of the Chapman estate, Sarah Junner.
		By 1925, Lawrence was not in a stable state of mind and decided to join the Royal Air Force under the assumed name of Thomas Edward Shaw because of his extreme dislike for the fame he had acquired through his war-time accomplishments.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/e/o/eom104/Assignment4.html (786 words)

	Victoria U. Library Exhibition - T.E. Lawrence And The Book
		Lawrence was an authority on the history of the crusades, military history and archaelogy, and an expert in guerilla warfare who was well- versed in intelligence operations.
		Lawrence was dissatisfied with it and eventually burnt it with a blow lamp in 1922.
		Lawrence altered the text in order that no initial letter appear twice and going to the extent of inventing an Arab name beginning with the letter X (Xury, the Druse Emir of Salkhad, on p.
	library.vicu.utoronto.ca /exhibitions/lawrence/lawrence.htm (1214 words)

	T. E. Lawrence : T.E. Lawrence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888 - May 18, 1935), also known as Lawrence of Arabia, became famous for his (now controversial) role as a British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918.
		His fame as a soldier rests on American traveller and journalist Lowell Thomas[?]'s reportage of the Revolt, as well as Lawrence's autobiography, Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
		Lawrence was born in Caernarfonshire[?], North Wales of mixed English and Irish ancestry, and was educated at Jesus College, Oxford.
	www.termsdefined.net /t./t.e.-lawrence.html (517 words)

	T E Lawrence - Ystads kommun
		Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was born in 1888 and grew up in Oxford, where he later studied archaeology.
		Lawrence was captured and brutally assaulted by the Turks.
		Lawrence died in a motorcycle accident near his home in Dorset the 19 May 1935.
	www.ystad.se /ystadweb.nsf/AllDocuments/31CE06D2A1510414C1256BB20027B457 (543 words)

	BBC - History - Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia (1888 - 1935)
		Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia (1888 - 1935)
		Lawrence urged his superiors to help them and became their liaison officer.
		Lawrence's last years were spent in the RAF, where he worked on improved designs for high-speed seaplane-tender watercraft.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/lawrence_of_arabia.shtml (401 words)

	NPR : The Real 'Lawrence of Arabia'
		Thomas Edward Lawrence was the dashing, romanticized British officer credited with leading the Arab revolt against the Turks during World War I -- a feat depicted in the epic film Lawrence of Arabia.
		Lawrence almost completed a first draft in 1919, lost it in a London train station, rewrote it hurriedly in 1920 and gave a manuscript to Oxford in 1922.
		But Lawrence suffered a breakdown soon after and the private subscription text which came out in 1926 was an abridged version, which some of his friends thought was not as good as the original.
	www.npr.org /display_pages/features/feature_1250171.html (891 words)

	British Empire: Biographies: Thomas Edward Lawrence
		This formative experience was the first to give Lawrence his passion, knowledge and understanding of the Desert and its dwellers.
		However this, and a stint as Arab adviser at the Colonial office, was to prove a disconcerting experience to Lawrence as he was unable to fulfill the promises and pledges that he had made to the Arabs in return for their help during the war.
		Lawrence died in a motorcycle accident in Dorset in 1935.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /biography/lawrence.htm (603 words)

	Written biography of Thomas Edward Lawrence \| Life of Thomas Edward Lawrence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The British soldier and author Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935), known as Lawrence of Arabia, coordinated the Arab Revolt against the Turks with British military operations.
		He became a legendary figure, and it is difficult to assess his life accurately.It seems established that T. Lawrence was born on Aug. 15, 1888, at Remadoc, North Wales, one of five sons of Thomas Robert Chapman, a landowner of County Meath, Ireland, and Sarah Madden, for whom Chapman had forsaken his legal wife.
		Thomas Lawrence, as they came to be known, wandered from Ireland to Scotland to Brittany and back to England.
	www.newessay.com /biographies/Thomas_Edward_Lawrence-34205.html (317 words)

	T. E. Lawrence Collection
		Thomas Edward Lawrence, archaeologist, soldier, and author, popularly known as Lawrence of Arabia, was born at Tremadoc, North Wales, on August 15, 1888, the second of five sons.
		Lawrence wrote an Introduction to Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles Doughty for a 1921 reprint edition by Jonathan Cape, the first book to be published by that firm.
		Lawrence, Thomas Edward, 1888-1935--(with Anderson, E.H.--7.6), 8.5(2), 8.6
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/lawrence.te.html (1999 words)

	Notable events that happened in and around Heytesbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		His eldest son, Thomas seems to have inherited his luck as he was also attainted, and was executed in 1469.
		Thomas Edward Lawrence, TE Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, drives past the Angel, on his way from Heytesbury House to his fatal crash on his Brough Superior motorbike, which he called Boa, swerving to avoid 2 young delivery men at Gallows Hill.
		Jill Dando’s killer, Barry George, was obsessed with Lawrence of Arabia – because his father, Paddy George, was born at Bovington, and his grandfather, Alfred, served with Lawrence in the Tank Corps.
	www.duckcottage.com /history%20heytesbury.htm (1714 words)

	T. E. Lawrence Studies - Lawrence of Arabia Factfile
		One is the Lawrence of Arabia Factfile, www.telawrence.info, which contains general biographical information about the life and career of Thomas Edward Lawrence, 1888-1935.
		Lawrence's youth, 1888-1914, from the illustrated biographical catalogue of the National Portrait Gallery's centenary exhibition
		In the year which sees the seventieth anniversary of the death of T E Lawrence, this major new exhibition reveals the life of an extraordinary man, including his early years, his wartime exploits in the Middle East, his post-war service career and writings, and how his story became a legend.
	www.telawrence.info (718 words)

	T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) \| British Soldier and Author
		Thomas Edward (T.E.) Lawrence was born on August 16, 1888 at Tremadoc in North Wales.
		Lawrence was sent to Mecca on a fact-finding mission, ultimately becoming the British liaison officer to the Arabs.
		An analysis of the creation of the "Lawrence of Arabia" legend including an examination of the relationship between Lawrence and Lowell Thomas, the American journalist who first publicized the story of Lawrence and the Arab Revolt through his war travelogues.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/95aug/lawrence.html (810 words)

	Term Paper on Thomas Edward Lawrence
		Colonel T. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia, was a guerrilla leader in the Arab Revolt of 1916-18, which expelled the Turks from western Arabia and Syria during World War I. Lawrence was an aloof, complex, versatile, somewhat arrogant genius, and his exploits made him a popular, if enigmatic, hero in the Western world.
		Thomas Edward Lawrence was born at Tremadoc, Wales, on Aug. 15, 1888.
		His father, Sir Thomas Robert Chapman, was an Anglo-Irish landholder who left his wife for his family's governess.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/Thomas_Edward_Lawrence-61000.html (191 words)

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		Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935), known to his family as 'Ned', was born at Tremadoc, North Wales, the second of five sons of Sir Thomas Robert Tighe Chapman and Sarah Junner.
		Lawrence was involved in politics immediately after the war, petitioning for the Arab cause in the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
		Lawrence was a particularly enthusiastic correspondent with his family, writing very descriptive letters of his activities and surroundings and less frequently about personal matters.
	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/lawrence/lawrence000.html (5840 words)

	Lawrence, Thomas Edward - The Society and Culture Beat - SearchBeat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lawrence Collection - Details of the collection of papers held at the University of Texas.
		Lawrence and his Cameras - Details of the two cameras associated with T. Lawrence held at the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford University.
		Lawrence of Arabia, 1918 - His personal reflection of one of the most controversial episodes of his experience in the desert.
	www.searchbeat.com /Society/History/ByTimePeriod/TwentiethCentury/WarsandConflicts/WorldWarI/Personalities/Lawrence,ThomasEdward (379 words)

	Thomas Edward Lawrence, 1888-1935. British author and politician
		Born in North Wales, Thomas Edward (T. E.) Lawrence was better known as Lawrence of Arabia.
		Lawrence became famous for his exploits as a British soldier and leader of the Arab Revolt during World War I. His experiences would later make up the bulk of his literary output, appearing in bestselling autobiographies The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, A Triumph, and Revolt in the Desert.
		After the war Lawrence served as the principal delegate to the Paris Peace Conference, where he promoted the cause of Arab independence, an endeavor which ultimately ended in disappointment.
	library.wustl.edu /units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/lawrence/lawrence.html (199 words)

	35116. Lawrence, T.E. (Thomas Edward). The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
		Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction
		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.
		T.E. (Thomas Edward) Lawrence (1888–1935), British soldier, scholar.
	www.bartleby.com /66/16/35116.html (90 words)

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