T E Lawrence Author, Editor & Translator

T. E. Lawrence was born in 1888. Educated at Oxford, he was later made a research fellow of All Souls College. During the First World War he was attached to the Hejaz Expeditionary Force and later transferred to General Allenby’s staff. In 1921 he became Advisor on Arab Affairs in the Colonial Office. In 1927, uncomfortable with his ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ legend, Lawrence changed his name to Shaw and joined the RAF. He was killed in a motobike accident in 1935 at the age of 47. Author of the classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom – his famed account of the Arab Revolt – Lawrence also wrote a prose translation of Homer’s Odyssey and was the author of Crusader Castles and The Mint.