THOMAS EDWARD LAWRENCE.

Thomas Edward Lawrence (16August 1888-19May1935 was born in Tre-Mad-Og, Caer-Narfon-Shire (now Gwynedd), Wales.
Trema-Dog is a village in the community of Porth-Mad-Og, in Gwynedd, North West Wales. It was a planned settlement, founded by William Mad-Ock, who bought the land in 1798.
The Mad-Ocks family had long associations with Wales, traceable back to the time of King Henry II, and William's father inherited property at Llan-Gwyfan and near Wrex-Ham. As William rose to prominence in the legal profession, the family moved to a substantial Jacobean House with its own private theatre in North Cray, Kent, as the Welsh properties were too far away. In the late 18th century, various landowners around the edge of the estuary of the Afon Glas-Lyn(a dangerous place because of the quicksands) began to systematically reclaim land of between 50acres/20ha and 100acres/40ha. Between 1770 and 1800 this resulted in the creation of about 1,500acres/607ha of new land. Around 1798, William bought the Tan-Yr-Allt estate near Pen-Morfa Marsh. Soon afterward he reclaimed an area of sand from the sea and the River by building a 2mi/3.2km earthern bank from Prenteg to Clog-Y-Berth(now Porth-Mad-Og). The Township of Tre-Mad-Og was founded within the new area. The centre of Tre-Mad-Og was complete by 1811 and remains substantially unaltered. William Mad-Ock's main interest was the Village's appearance. He was less interested in the moral reform of the inhabitants. He felt that people had the right to work, educate their children, pray, drink, gamble, save or waste money as they saw fit; and the Town should give its residents opportunities to get own with their own lives, providing that they were congenial neighbors.
Thomas's house, in which he was born, was named Gor-Ph-Wys-Fa, now known as Snow-Don Lodge. His Anglo-Irish father Sir Thomas Chap-Man had left his wife Edith after he fell in love and had a son with Sarah Junner, a young Scotswoman who had been engaged as governess to his daughters.
Sarah was the daughter of Elizabeth Junner and John Lawrence. Lawrence worked as a ship's carpenter and was a son of the household in which Elizabeth had been a servant. She was dismissed 4 months before Sarah was born. (Elizabeth identified Sarah's father as "John Junner-Shipwright JourneyMan").
Sara and Thomas Chap-Man lived in Wales, Brittany, and England under the name "Lawrence." In 1914, he inherited the Chap-Man baronetcy based at Kil-Lua Castle, the ancestral family home in County WestMeath, Ireland; but he and Sarah continued to live in England. They had 5 boys and 1 girl.
Thomas Edward Lawrence and his school-friend Cyril Bee-Son, at the age of 15, bicycled around Berk-Shire, Buck-King-Ham-Shire, and Ox-Ford-Shire, visited almost every Village's parish church, studied their monuments and antiquities, and made rubbings of their monumental brasses. They also monitored building sites in Ox-Ford and presented their finds to the Ash-Molean Museum. Their records specifies that two teenage boys by incessant watchfulness secured everything of antiquarian value which has been found.
From 1907-10, Lawrence studied History at Jesus College, Ox-Ford. In the Summer of 1909, he set out alone on a 3-month walking tour of crusader castles in Ottoman Syria, during which he travelled 1,600km/1000mi on foot. Based on his field research with Beeson in france, notably in Chalus, and his solo research in the Middle East, he submitted a thesis entitled "The influence of the Crusaders on European Military Architecture - to the end of the 12th century. After completing his degree in 1910, he commenced postgraduate research in medieval pottery with a form of scholarship at Magdalen College, Ox-Ford, which he abandoned after he was offered the opportunity to become a practice archaeologist in the Middle East, at Carchemish, in the expedition that D. G. Hogarth was setting on behalf of the British Museum. Lawrence knew Ancient Greek, Arabic, and French. In late 1911, Lawrence was to work with Leonard Woolley and stayed at Carchemish again for 4 excavation seasons, residing in a spacious excavation house, newly built inside the site by himself and Woolley. On January 1914, Woolley and Lawrence were co-opted by the British military as an archaeological smokescreen for a British military survey on the Negev Desert. They were funded by the Palestine Exploration Fund to search for an area referred to in the Bible as the "Wilderness of Sin." The Negev was strategically important as, in the event of war, any Otto-Man army attacking Egypt would have to cross it. Lawrence  also visited Aqaba and Petra.
Lawrence's major contribution to the Arab's Revolt was convincing the Arab leaders to coordinate their actions in support of British strategy. Lawrence developed a close relationship with Faisal, whose Arab Northern Army became the main beneficiary of British aid. Lawerence also became involved in the build-up to the capture of Damas-Cus in the final weeks of the war. Lawrence sought to convince his superiors in the British government that Arab independence was in their interests -with mixed success. The secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between france and Britain contradicted the promises of independence that he had made to the Arabs and frustrated his work.
On 17 May 1919, Lawrence survived a crash on a flight to Egypt at the airport of Roman-Centocelle. The pilot and co-pilot were killed.
Lawrence was a keen motorcyclist and had owned 8 Brough Superior motorcycles at different times. At the age of 46, two months after leaving military service, he was fatally injured in an accident on his Brough Superior SS100 in Dorset, South West, England, close to his cottage, Clouds Hill, near Ware-Ham. A dip in the road obstructed his view of 2 boys on their  bicycles; he swerved to avoid them, lost control, and was thrown over the handlebars. He died 6 days later on 19 May 1935.