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More, Sir Thomas
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also St Thomas More
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pronunciation:
[moor]
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| biography:
| English statesman and scholar, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, became a lawyer, then spent four years in a Carthusian monastery to test his vocation for the priesthood. He did not take holy orders, and under Henry VIII became Master of Requests (1514), Treasurer of the Exchequer (1521), and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1525). On the fall of Wolsey (1529), he was appointed Lord Chancellor, but resigned in 1532 following his opposition to Henry's break with the Roman Catholic Church. On refusing to recognize Henry as head of the English Church, he was imprisoned and beheaded. A leading humanist scholar, as revealed in his Latin Utopia (1516) and many other works, he was canonized in 1935, and declared the patron saint of politicians in 2000; feast day 22 June. |
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