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The History of England
Thomas More ()
I am seriously not going to attempt a proper biography of Thomas More – books have been written on the subject. But a very quick summary maybe.
The Oxford DNB summarises thus – ‘lord chancellor, humanist, and martyr’.
Thomas came from wealthy families, from trade (his father was a wealthy baker) and the law.
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He studied at St Anthony’s school in London, and England’s second oldest university, Oxford (joke, sorry). In , More was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn to prepare for admission to the bar, and in became a full member of the legal profession.
More interests though were of course much wider than the law; he became close friends with Erasmus, and read extensively from Holy Scriptures and the classics.
He was a deeply religious man, and in started to train to become a Carthusian monk, but instead chose public service and in became a member of parliament.
More published ‘Utopia’ in ; and went on to become serve under Henry VIII, helping H