British World War I agent-Orientalists combined adventurer-expert and colonial authority roles.

Evidence

The British agent-Orientalist—Lawrence, Bell, Philby, Storrs, Hogarth—during and after World War I took over both the role of expert-adventurer-eccentric (created in the nineteenth century by Lane, Burton, Hester Stanhope) and the role of colonial authority, whose position is in a central place next to the indigenous ruler: Lawrence with the Hashimites, Philby with the house of Saud, are the two best-known instances. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 627

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the agent-Orientalist as a fusion of two earlier roles, expert-adventurer-eccentric and colonial authority sitting beside the indigenous ruler.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 627