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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]
Sir Thomas More is an Elizabethan play and a dramatic biography based on 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.
Maria More (née Scrope) (1534–1607), Wife of Thomas More II. Sir Thomas More (1478–1535) wearing his official Tudor Collar of Esses. This part reproduces Holbein's famous portrait of More now at the Frick Collection. [11] Thomas More II (1531–1606), Grandson of Sir Thomas More. Margaret Roper (1505–1544), Daughter of Sir Thomas More.
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.
Thomas More was a 17th-century weaver and lay theologian who resided near Wisbech in England. He gained prominence for his 1646 theological work, "The Universality of God’s Free Grace in Christ to Mankind," in which he advocated universal redemption .
Margaret Roper (née More; 1505–1544) was an English writer and translator. Roper, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, is considered to have been one of the most learned women in sixteenth-century England. [1]
Hans Holbein's witty marginal drawing of Folly (1515), in a copy owned by Erasmus himself. The Praise of Folly begins with a satirical learned encomium, in which Folly praises herself, in the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian (2nd century AD), whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin; Folly swipes at every part of society, from lovers to princes to inventors ...
In 2007 and 2008, he portrayed Thomas More on the Showtime series, The Tudors. [6] He played John Brodie Innes in the 2009 film Creation, [1] based on the life of Charles Darwin. In the 2015 film The Man Who Knew Infinity, [1] he portrayed the philosopher Bertrand Russell.