More, Sir Thomas

More, Sir Thomas
(1478–1535)
   Statesman, Political Philosopher, Saint and Martyr.
   More was educated at the University of Oxford, England, and trained as a lawyer. He became a Member of Parliament in 1504 and rose to be Lord Chancellor, succeeding Cardinal wolsey in 1529. He was a personal friend of humanists such as colet and erasmus and members of his household were painted by the artist Holbein. He was the author of Utopia, a description of an ideal state governed by natural law; this is still read today. He was a devout Roman Catholic and went so far as to compose a theological refutation of the ideas of Martin luther. However, he incurred the displeasure of King Henry VIII by opposing his plans for the divorce of his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. In 1532 he resigned the Lord Chancellorship and in 1534 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusing to take the oath of the Act of Succession. In the following year he was accused of high treason on the (untrue) grounds that he had opposed the Act of Supremacy and, after his conviction, he was executed. He was canonised in 1935. More remains a significant figure in English mythology. In recent times his life has been successfully dramatised by Robert Bolt as A Man for all Seasons, which became a popular film.
   Thomas More, Utopia [many editions];
   A.J.P. Kenny, Thomas More (1983);
   M.J. Moore (ed.), Quincentennial Essays on St Thomas More (1978);
   G. Rupp, Thomas More: The King’s Good Servant (1978).

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