High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Patrick Andrew Clayton DSO MBE (16 April 1896 - 17 March 1962 ) was a British surveyor and soldier. He was the basis for the character of Peter Madox in The English Patient. Clayton spent nearly 20 years with the Egyptian Survey department during the 1920s and 1930s extensively mapping large areas of previously unmapped desert. In 1931, Clayton was running triangulation from Wadi Halfa to Uweinat when he came across refugees fleeing from the Italian occupation of Kufra, via Uweinat and helped save many from death in the arid desert. Clayton had collaboratad extensively with Ralph Bagnold in the preparation and mapping associated with Bagnold's pre-war exploration trips. He served in the British Army's Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) during World War II.