Arnold Walter Lawrence | |
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![]() A. W. Lawrence in Omnibus (BBC, 1985) | |
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Died | 31 March 1991 Devizes, Wiltshire | (aged 90)
Known for | Modelling for Youth by Kathleen Scott |
Spouse |
Barbara Inness Thompson
(m. 1925; died 1986) |
Father | Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet |
Family | T. E. Lawrence (brother) |
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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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