Peter Madox is a character based on British surveyor and cartographer Patrick Andrew Clayton.Born on 16 April 1896, his family counted D. H. Lawrence among their friends. He served as an artillery officer in Greece and Turkey during World War I. Over the next 20 years, he explored North Africa with, among others, Ralph Bagnold (who recruited him for the British Army's Long Range Desert Group), W. B. Kennedy Shaw, and L