Research & Discussion
General biography
Rejected legend
Youth 1888-1914
War service 1914-1918
Diplomacy 1918-1922
Service years 1922-1935
Lawrence's personality
Writings and criticism
Lawrence and book production
Film, TV, radio
Book reviews
Bibliography & Collecting
Obituaries
Discussion list
T. E. Lawrence Studies list
Notes on named contributors
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Bob Archibald
Founder of the Western States T.E. Lawrence Society
St.John Armitage CBE (1924-2004)
Former soldier and
diplomat, authority on the history of the Middle East.
Obituaries:
Telegraph,
Guardian,
Independent
Papers: St Antony's College, Oxford.
Joseph Berton
Researcher on photographs of the Arab Revolt and author of several articles and T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, An Illustrated Guide (Madrid, Andrea Press, 2011).
Clifford H. Irwin (1923-2009)
Retired advertising executive. Researched an extensive calendar of T.E. Lawrence's letters and wrote at least one article on that topic. Adviser to the American newsletter T.E. Notes.
Edward A. Jajko
Formerly Deputy Curator, Middle East Collection, Hoover Institution, Stanford, California. One of the organisers of the T.E. Lawrence Conference held at Santa Clara University in 2000.
Claire Keith
Associate Professor of French at Marist
College, Poughkeepsie. Author of articles about Lawrence and Lowell Thomas
based on the Lowell Thomas archive at Marist.
Web page
Kathi McGraw
Wrote the catalogue for the Lawrence exhibition held at Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1998.
Ann Miller
American Artist.
Harold Orlans (1921-2007)
Author, Lawrence of Arabia, Strange Man of
Letters (London and Toronto, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
1993); T.E. Lawrence, Biography of a Broken Hero (Jefferson, North
Carolina, and London, McFarland, 2002), and a number of articles.
Obituary:
Washington Post
Jeremy Wilson (1944-2017)
List Moderator, Authorised Biogrpaher of T.E.
Lawrence, Series editor of the Castle Hill Press edition of Lawrence's
writings and correspondence.
Web page
Wikipedia
T. E. Lawrence chronology
1888 16 August: born at Tremadoc, Wales
1896-1907: City of Oxford High School for Boys
1907-9: Jesus College, Oxford, B.A., 1st Class Hons, 1909
1910-14: Magdalen College, Oxford (Senior Demy), while working at the British Museum's excavations at Carchemish
1915-16: Military Intelligence Dept, Cairo
1916-18: Liaison Officer with the Arab Revolt
1919: Attended the Paris Peace Conference
1919-22: wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1921-2: Adviser on Arab Affairs to Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office
1922 August: Enlisted in the Ranks of the RAF
1923 January: discharged from the RAF
1923 March: enlisted in the Tank Corps
1923: translated a French novel, The Forest Giant
1924-6: prepared the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1927-8: stationed at Karachi, then Miranshah
1927 March: Revolt in the Desert, an abridgement of Seven Pillars, published
1928: completed The Mint, began translating Homer's Odyssey
1929-33: stationed at Plymouth
1931: started working on RAF boats
1932: his translation of the Odyssey published
1933-5: attached to MAEE, Felixstowe
1935 February: retired from the RAF
1935 19 May: died from injuries received in a motor-cycle crash on 13 May
1935 21 May: buried at Moreton, Dorset