British Army General List officers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Chapters: T. E. Lawrence, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Anthony Blunt, Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard, A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, Clement Freud, Malcolm Muggeridge, Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh, Cyril Banks, Bruce Marshall, Prince Henry of Battenberg, Henry Norris, Ernest Brooks, Arnold Ridley, James Klugmann, Robert Benoist, Anthony Brooks, A. E. W. Mason, William E. Fairbairn, Walter E. Rees, Ronald Storrs, Gilbert Highet, James Cassels, Muirhead Bone, Sigismund Payne Best, Andrew Gilchrist, Anthony Marlowe, Ranulph Bacon, Eric A. Sykes, Lancelot Curran, George Reginald Starr, Vladimir Peniakoff, James Despencer-Robertson, Bertram Thomas, Norman Bentwich, George Carter-Campbell, Jasper More, Cyril Falls, Andrew Way, Gervas Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers, Xan Fielding, Fitzroy Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, Benton Fletcher, Duane Hudson, Bernard Mouat Jones, Maurice Buckmaster, John Dacre Vincent, Gordon Nornable, Thomas James Dunbabin. Excerpt: Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (16 August 1888 - 19 May 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916-18. The extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title which was used for the 1962 film based on his First World War activities. Lawrence was born illegitimately in Tremadog, Wales in August 1888 to Sir Thomas Chapman and Sarah Junner, a governess, who was herself illegitimate. Chapman left his wife to live with Sarah Junner, and they called themselves Mr and Mrs Lawrence. In the summer of 1896 the Lawrences moved to Oxford, where from 1907 to 1910 young Lawrence studied history at Jesus College, graduating with First Class Honours. He became a practising archaeologist in the Middle East, working with David George Hogarth and Leonard Woolley on various excavations. In January 1914, following the outbreak of the First World War, Lawrence was co-opted by the British military to undertake a military survey of the Negev Desert while doing archaeological research. Lawrence's public image was due in part to American journalist Lowell Thomas' sensationalised reportage of the revolt as well as to Lawrence's autobiographical account Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922). T. E. Lawrence's birthplace, Gorphwysfa, now known as Snowdon LodgeLawrence was born on 16 August 1888 in Tremadog, Caernarfonshire (now Gwynedd), Wales, in a house named Gorphwysfa, now known as Snowdon Lodge. His Anglo-Irish father, Thomas Robert Tighe Chapman, who in 1914 inherited the title of seventh Baronet of Westmeath in Ireland, had left his wife Edith for his daughters' governess Sarah Junner. Junner's mother, Elizabeth Junner, had named as Sarah's father a "John Junner - shipwright journeyman", though she had been living as