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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 ...
Sir Thomas More is an Elizabethan play and a dramatic biography based on particular events in the life of the Catholic martyr Thomas More, who rose to become the Lord Chancellor of England during the reign of Henry VIII. The play is considered to be written by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle and revised by several writers.
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 ...
Utopia (Latin: Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, [1] "A truly golden little book, not less beneficial than enjoyable, about how things should be in a state and about the new island Utopia") is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535), written in Latin and published in 1516.
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.
In this, he is very like Sir Thomas More, although Cromwell is a Protestant reformer and More was a devout Catholic, but he is much more unscrupulous with his actions. In the second season, Cromwell rises to the position of Lord Chancellor after the fall of More (in actuality he was never Lord Chancellor although the chief minister).