T.E. Lawrence
1888–1935

Thomas Edward Lawrence, born at Tremadoc, educated at Oxford, headed Arab forces in guerilla warfare against Turkey in World War I, and in 1922 gave up rank and surname (for Shaw) and became an air-force mechanic. He wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom (privately circulated in 1926; published 1935), and translated the Odyssey. He was killed in a motor-cycle accident.