Life
1888-1935 [Thomas Edward]; Lawrence of Arabia, b. Tremadoc, N. Wales,
son of Thomas Robert Chapman, an Anglo-Irish landlord who assumed the
name Lawrence; ed. Oxford High School and Jesus College; Arab Bureau of
Military Intelligence in Egypt; led Arab followers in successful actions
against Turks through Arab and on to meet Allenby in Syria, but could
not maintain his undertaking that an Arab kingdom would be established;
wrote account of his part in the Arab Revolt as Seven Pillars of Wisdom;
adopted name of Shaw and joined the Royal Flying Corp as a non-commissioned
officer; was asked to join the Irish Academy of Letters and Medals by
Yeats and Shaw as an associate member. Port. in oil by Herbert Gurschner
in NGI.
Criticism
H. Montgomery Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks; [Lawrence of Arabia,
soldier and airman] (Constable 1977).
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