This is the room he lived in when at Jesus college, Oxford. It is currently closed to the public due to damage to the ceiling, but Peter persuaded the man with the key to let us see inside.
Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO (16 August 1888[5] – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, military officer, and diplomat. He was renowned for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, and the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18. The 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 used for the 1962 film based on his First World War activities.
Lawrence was born out of wedlock in Tremadog, Wales, in August 1888 to Sir Thomas Chapman and Sarah Junner, a Scottish governess who was herself illegitimate. Chapman had left his wife and first family in Ireland to live with Junner, and they called themselves Mr and Mrs Lawrence. In the summer of 1896 the Lawrences moved to Oxford, where in 1907–10 young Lawrence studied History at Jesus College and graduated with First Class Honours. He became a practising archaeologist in the Middle East, working at various excavations with David George Hogarth and Leonard Woolley. In 1908, he joined the Oxford University Officers' Training Corps and underwent a two-year training course.[6] In January 1914, before the outbreak of World War I, Lawrence was commissioned by the British Army to undertake a military survey of the Negev Desert while doing archaeological research.
Lawrence's public image resulted in part from the sensationalised reportage of the Arab revolt by an American journalist, Lowell Thomas, as well as from Lawrence's autobiographical account Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922). In 1935, Lawrence was fatally injured in a motorcycle accident in Dorset.
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Jesus College, the only Oxford college to date from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, received its first royal charter on 27 June 1571, as 'Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's Foundation'. Ten medieval and five early Tudor colleges already existed in Oxford, many of them with regional affiliations. There were also eight or nine survivals from the previously much larger number of academic halls, which offered student accommodation but little formal discipline or teaching, and no endowments or lifelong places for fellows. All of these have since disappeared or been transformed into colleges. Jesus College directly replaced one of these halls, White Hall, which had existed on part of the present College site since the 13th century, and closed down only after the appointment of its last Principal in 1570.
Although founded through the efforts of a mixed group of Oxford- and Cambridge-educated lawyers and clergy, Jesus College was intended for the education of future clergymen. The 1571 charter stated that it would be a 'college of learning in the sciences of philosophy, the moral arts, and knowledge of the Hebrew, Greek and Latin languages, with the eventual aim of professing sacred Theology'. Fledgling lawyers were already well catered for, especially at All Souls College and New Inn Hall, Oxford and the Inns of Court in London, whereas there was a clear need for the training of dedicated, learned clergy to promote the Elizabethan church settlement in the parishes of England, Ireland and Wales.
These days it excels in many subjects, notably Chemistry - and I can say this with some authority as we were royally wined and dined by the Chemistry department last night, and treated to an exciting tour of the Chemistry department!
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Peter saw this beautiful golden galleon in the museum, and you could just see his mind deconstructing it, and wondering if he could make something similar!
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at Jesus College, Oxford. We were there for dinner last night. It's a lovely room, with a fine set of portraits of founders and alumni.
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