What was T. E. Lawrence's birth name?
Thomas Edward Lawrence
Lawrence Thomas Chapman
Edward Thomas Lawrence
Thomas Lawrence Chapman
Answer
T. E. Lawrence was born as Thomas Edward Lawrence in August 1888. He was the illegitimate son of Sarah Junner, a governess, and Sir Thomas Chapman, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat. They used the surname Lawrence, likely after Sarah's father.
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