David George Hogarth was a British

British people

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 archaeologist and scholar associated with T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO , known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18...

 and Arthur Evans

Arthur Evans

Sir Arthur John Evans FRS was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout eastern Mediterranean...

.

Archaeological career

Between 1887 and 1907, Hogarth travelled to excavations in Cyprus

Cyprus

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, Crete

Crete

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, Egypt

Egypt

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, Syria

Syria

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, Melos, and Ephesus

Ephesus

Ephesus was an ancient Greek city, and later a major Roman city, on the west coast of Asia Minor, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek era...

 (the Temple of Artemis

Temple of Artemis

The Temple of Artemis , also known less precisely as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to a goddess Greeks identified as Artemis and was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was situated at Ephesus , and was completely rebuilt three times before its eventual destruction...

). On the island of Crete, he excavated Zakros

Zakros

Zakros is a site on the eastern coast of the island of Crete, Greece, containing ruins from the Minoan civilization. The site is often known to archaeologists as Zakro or Kato Zakro...

.

Ashmolean museum

He was the keeper of the Ashmolean Museum

Ashmolean Museum

The Ashmolean Museum on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum...

 in Oxford

Oxford

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 from 1909 until his death in 1927. The character of Mr. Dryden

Mr. Dryden

Mr. Dryden is a major character in the film Lawrence of Arabia . He is portrayed by veteran actor Claude Rains. He is a diplomat and political leader, the head of the Arab Bureau, who first enlists T. E. Lawrence for work as a liaison to the Arab Revolt, and manipulates Lawrence and the Arabs to...

 (played by Claude Rains

Claude Rains

Claude Rains was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned 66 years. He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man , a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington , Mr...

) in the film Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia (film)

Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company, Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. The film stars Peter O'Toole in the title role. It is widely...

was loosely based on an amalgamation of Hogarth and colonial Governor Sir Ronald Storrs.

Military service

In 1915, during World War I

World War I

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, Hogarth joined the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division

Naval Intelligence Division

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. He also was the acting director of the Arab Bureau

Arab Bureau

The Arab Bureau was a section of the Cairo Intelligence Department during the First World War. According to a Committee of Imperial Defence paper from January 7, 1916 the Arab Bureau was established to "harmonise British political activity in the Near East...[and] keep the Foreign Office, the India...

 for a time during the war, with Kinahan Cornwallis

Kinahan Cornwallis

Sir Kirnahan Cornwallis, GCMG, CBE, DSO was a British administrator and diplomat best known for being an advisor to King Faisal and for being the British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Iraq during the Anglo-Iraqi War.-Biography:...

 as his deputy.

Works

• A Wandering Scholar (1896)
• The Nearer East (1905)
• The Penetration of Arabia: a Record of Western Knowledge Concerning the Arabian Peninsula (1905)
• The Archaic Artemisia of Ephesus (1908)
• Ionia and the East (1909)
• The Ancient East (1914)
• The Balkans (1915)
• Hittite Seals (1920)
• Arabia (1922) (also as A History of Arabia)
• Kings of the Hittites (1926) (Schweich Lectures for 1924)

Editor

• Authority and Archaeology - Sacred and Profane - Essays on the relation of monuments to Biblical and Classical Literature (1899 2nd Edition)

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