A. W. Lawrence

Arnold Walter Lawrence

FBA
Arnold Walter Lawrence; FBA
	A. W. Lawrence in Omnibus (BBC, 1985)
Born	2 May 1900; Oxford
Died	31 March 1991 (aged 90); Devizes, Wiltshire
Known for	Modelling for Youth by Kathleen Scott
Spouse	Barbara Inness Thompson (m. 1925; died 1986)
Parent	Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet (father);
Family	T. E. Lawrence (brother)
Academic background
Education	City of Oxford High School for Boys; New College, Oxford;
Academic work
Institutions	Jesus College, Cambridge; University College of the Gold Coast;

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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