No serious answers yet - who employed a man named Birch to beat his buttocks?

Lightning

Lawrence of Arabia (it's from the board game Trivial Pursuits) Nov 24 02, 8:25 AM

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Then, from the early 1920s until his death in 1935, Lawrence had at least four (and very likely other) younger men employed to beat him with birches, canes made of twisted twigs. [John] Bruce performed in this capacity for Lawrence for more than ten years, always under the impression that an older relative of Lawrence’s was ordering the beatings and requiring written descriptions of them. http://clarissethorn.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/lawrence-of-arabia/ Jun 01 10, 9:41 PM