Lawrence

Lawrence
Law|rence, D. H.
(1885-1930) a British writer who wrote stories of life in industrial society, in which his characters show strong emotion and sexual desire. His books include ↑Sons and Lovers, ↑Women in Love, and ↑Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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Lawrence, Stephen
(1974-1993) a young black man who was murdered in Eltham, south London, in 1993 by a group of young white men. Five men were ↑arrested,, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was not enough ↑evidence to bring them to ↑trial. In 1996 Stephen's parents brought a private ↑prosecution for murder against the five men, but they were found not guilty. Mr and Mrs Lawrence also complained that the police had not carried out a proper ↑investigation into the murder because Stephen was black. An ↑inquiry was held and in 1999 its ↑chairman Sir William Macpherson criticized the police in his report. He said there was institutional racism in the Metropolitan Police Force.
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Lawrence, T. E.
(1888-1935) a British soldier and writer, also known as Lawrence of Arabia. Lawrence helped the Arabs in their fight against the Turks (1914-18), and was strongly in favour of Arab independence. He wrote The Seven Pillars of Wisdom about his adventures in the desert.

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