Lawrence of Arabia

T. E. Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence
was born in 1888, in Tremadoc, Wales. As an archaeologist he took part in excavations in Anatolia and Syria. From 1916 to 1918 he participated in the organisation of the Arab revolt against the Turks as a British Agent and in 1919 supported the Arab's independence. He then joined the Royal Air Force as a simple soldier, using a pseudonym, and spent a longer period of time in India. Only a few weeks after he resigned from his military service, he died in a motorcycle accident in 1935 in Moreton, England. His major literary works, "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and "Revolt in the Desert", were published in 1926.