A. W. Lawrence

Arnold Walter Lawrence
An elderly, white-haired man, in an open collar and woollen jumper.
A. W. Lawrence in Omnibus (BBC, 1985)
Born(1900-05-02)2 May 1900
Died31 March 1991(1991-03-31) (aged 90)
Devizes, Wiltshire
Known forModelling for Youth by Kathleen Scott
Spouse
Barbara Inness Thompson
(m. 1925; died 1986)
Parent
FamilyT. E. Lawrence (brother)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
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Arnold Walter Lawrence FBA (2 May 1900 – 31 March 1991) was a British authority on classical sculpture and architecture. He was Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University in the 1940s, and in the early 1950s in Accra he founded what later became the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board as well as the National Museum of Ghana. He was the youngest brother of T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and his literary executor.


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