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Sir Thomas More PC (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, [2] was an English lawyer, judge, [3] social philosopher, author, statesman, amateur theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. [4] He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. [5]
Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbishop of York: 1515 1529 Thomas More [b] 1529 1532 Thomas Audley (Lord Audley of Walden from 1538) [b] 1532 1544 Lord Wriothesley: 1544 1547 Edward VI (1547–1553) Lord St John, Keeper 1547 1547 Lord Rich [b] 1547 1551 Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely: 1552 1553 Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester: 1553 1555 Mary ...
A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 British historical drama film directed and produced by Fred Zinnemann, adapted by Robert Bolt from his play of the same name.It depicts the final years of Sir Thomas More, the 16th-century Lord Chancellor of England who refused both to sign a letter asking Pope Clement VII to annul Henry VIII of England's marriage to Catherine of Aragon and to take an Oath of ...
Richard Tottel. Publication date. 1553. A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation is a work that was written by St. Thomas More while imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1534. William Frederick Yeames, The meeting of Sir Thomas More with his daughter after his sentence of death, 1872.
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (July 1496 – 12 June 1567), was Lord Chancellor during King Edward VI of England 's reign, from 1547 until January 1552. He was the founder of Felsted School with its associated almshouses in Essex in 1564. He was a beneficiary of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and persecuted perceived opponents of the king ...
v. t. e. The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland [a] and England [b] in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. The lord chancellor is appointed by the sovereign on the advice of the prime minister.
Beaufort House circa 1520. Beaufort House was a grand mansion built beside the River Thames at Chelsea, London, by Thomas More in about 1520, while he held the position of Lord High Chancellor of England to King Henry VIII. On his arrest in 1534 all of More's property was forfeit to the Crown. The house was given the name of Beaufort House only ...
Thomas More. Dimensions. 120.5 cm × 95.5 cm (47.4 in × 37.5 in) Location. Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lyon. Thomas More in Prison, Visited by His Wife and Daughter or Thomas More en prison (and various other titles) is a history painting of 1828 by Claudius Jacquand. It has been in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon since soon ...