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Thomas More

Died in 1535

Thomas More was born in 1478; a London lawyer, he became a barrister in 1501, then a Member of Parliament and, in 1523, Speaker of the House of Commons. Chancellor to Henry VIII in 1529, he later refused to recognise the king as head of the Church, was convicted of treason and beheaded on Tower Hill on 6 July 1535. The Catholic Church canonised him in 1935; as early as 1918, the Bolshevik authorities had had his name carved on an obelisk in Moscow, among nineteen precursors of socialism.

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