Arnold Walter Lawrence

Full Name:	Arnold Walter Lawrence
Date of Birth:	1900
Date of Death:	1991
Involvement with Ur:	Archaeological Assistant
Time of Involvement with Ur:	1923-24
Biography:	Youngest brother of T.E. Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia'), A.W. Lawrence was asked to fill the assistant position at Ur after the original field assistant from Penn, Paul Hunter, had fallen ill and been sent home before ever reaching Iraq. Lawrence arrived at Ur about mid-way through the first season. A.W. Lawrence was primarily a Classicist and rose to be a leading authority on classical sculpture and architecture. He then took a position in Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University (1940s) and became Director of the National Museum of Ghana, which he founded in the 1950s.