Jesus College, Oxford
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Jesus College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship Street, Cornmarket Street and Market Stree
The college's founder, Queen Elizabeth I, shown in a portrait in the college hall
College engraving, 1675
Harold Wilson, who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, studied Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) at Jesus College, graduating with first class honours.
The interior of the chapel (depicted in 1814, before alterations in the mid-19th century)
T. E. Lawrence
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Thomas Edward Lawrence was a British Army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer known for his role during the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the First
Jesus College, Oxford
…who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom), Kevin Rudd (Prime Minister of Australia), Norman Washington Manley (Prime Minister of Jamaica), T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), Angus Buchanan (winner of the Victoria Cross), Viscount Sankey (Lord Chancellor), Edwin Yoder (Pulitzer Prize winning journalist…
Lawrence in 1918
Lawrence's birthplace, Gorphwysfa, in Tremadog, Carnarvonshire
The Lawrence family lived at 2 Polstead Road, Oxford from 1896 to 1921.
Leonard Woolley (left) and Lawrence at the excavation of Carchemish, c. 1912