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T. E. Lawrence of Arabia
T.E. Lawrence has often been compared with the likes of James Dean, as one of the most widely publicised folk heroes of the twentieth century, and not just in Great Britain, but throughout Europe and the United States.
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But who was this complex man, and what was is it that made him so important?
Thomas (T) Edward (E) Lawrence, more popularly known as Lawrence of Arabia, was born at Tremadoc in North Wales. But Lawrence was not actually his name at all!
He was in fact the son of Thomas Chapman, later to become Sir Thomas Chapman.
The Chapmans were Irish Protestant landed gentry. Thomas had escaped a reportedly tyrannical wife and had run away with his daughter’s governess, Sarah Judder.
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Thomas and Sarah assumed the surname “Lawrence” and had five sons together, of whom the second was T. E., born on 15th August 1888.
T. E. learned to read at a very early age by listening to and copying his elder brother.
By the tender age of four he was reading both newspap