Thomas Cromwell was Chief Minister to King Henry VIII of England from 1534 to 1540. He played a prominent role in the important events of Henry's reign...
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Thomas Cromwell (/ˈkrɒmwəl, -wɛl/; c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to...
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Richard Cromwell (4 October 1626 – 12 July 1712) was an English statesman, the second and final Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland...
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Elizabeth Wyckes (category Cromwell family)
Wykes) (d. 1529) was the wife of Thomas Cromwell (1485 – 28 July 1540), Earl of Essex, and chief minister to Henry VIII of England. She was daughter to...
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Gordon-Reed Tiya Miles Lucy Sante Ryan Holiday Journalists and critics Ed Yong Thomas Chatterton Williams Daniel Alarcón Anand Giridharadas Morgan Jerkins Roxane...
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Ralph Sadler (category Secretaries of state of the Kingdom of England)
a fictional portrayal of Sadler's youth and early manhood in the household of Thomas Cromwell. During the BBC 2 series, he is portrayed by Thomas Brodie-Sangster...
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George Cavendish (writer) (redirect from The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey)
prose of his age. George Cavendish appears as a minor character in Dame Hilary Mantel's novel Wolf Hall, a fictional biography of Thomas Cromwell. Cavendish...
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Wolsey, Cromwell charged Thomas Howard with disloyalty; Howard in turn called Cromwell a liar. Their mutual hostility was now out in the open. Cromwell inadvertently...
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Irene Papas plays Catherine of Aragon, Anthony Quayle plays Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, and John Colicos plays Thomas Cromwell. Others in the cast include...
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George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford (category Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports)
for 1507. However, following the executions of Anne and George in 1536 their father wrote to Thomas Cromwell and in his letter he stated that upon his marriage...
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minister, Thomas Cromwell. The artist Hans Holbein the Younger was dispatched to Düren to paint portraits of Anne and her younger sister, Amalia, each of whom...
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Mantel's 2009 novel Wolf Hall, the fictionalized version of Thomas Cromwell describes "memory palace" techniques and his uses of it. In the 2017 medical drama...
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Henry Ireton (category Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford)
Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and a son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. He died of disease outside Limerick in November 1651. Ireton was the eldest son of German...
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Allen Dulles (category Sullivan & Cromwell partners)
the assassination of Kennedy. Between his stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. His older brother...
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the king's chief adviser (formally, as his successor and disciple Thomas Cromwell was not). In that position, he enjoyed great freedom and was often...
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dismissed for lack of any evidence. In early 1534, More was accused by Thomas Cromwell of having given advice and counsel to the "Holy Maid of Kent," Elizabeth...
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Edward Sexby (category Parliamentarian military personnel of the English Civil War)
English Puritan soldier and Leveller in the army of Oliver Cromwell. Later he turned against Cromwell and plotted his assassination, which Sexby considered...
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Stephen Gardiner (category Secretaries of state of the Kingdom of England)
the guidelines of the general commission. Gardiner was a conservative and an opponent of Anne Boleyn, Cranmer, Thomas Cromwell and of any innovation in...
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Dr. Thomas Wayne, M.D. is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. He is the father of Bruce Wayne (Batman), and...
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Cicero (redirect from Fictional portrayals of Cicero)
weight." Thomas Jefferson names Cicero as one of a handful of major figures who contributed to a tradition "of public right" that informed his draft of the...
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I, Robot (film) (category Fictional portrayals of the Chicago Police Department)
Spooner (Smith) investigates the alleged suicide of U.S. Robotics founder Alfred Lanning (Cromwell) and believes that a human-like robot called Sonny...
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Eustace Chapuys (category Ambassadors of Spain to the Kingdom of England)
Friars, a neighbour to Thomas Cromwell ("Master Secretary" to King Henry VIII) in what later became Drapers' Hall. Apart from Cromwell, whom he came to consider...
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Shylock (redirect from A pound of flesh)
Shylock (/ʃaɪˈlɒk/) is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice (c. 1600). A Venetian Jewish moneylender, Shylock is...
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John Thurloe (category Members of the pre-1707 Parliament of England for the University of Cambridge)
as secretary to the council of state in Protectorate England and spymaster for Oliver Cromwell and held the position of Postmaster General between 1655...
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Varney the Vampire (category Fictional vampires)
account of his origin with a sympathetic priest. According to Varney, he was cursed with vampirism after he betrayed a royalist to Oliver Cromwell, and subsequently...
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Oliver St John (category Members of Cromwell's Other House)
(2 vols, Oxford, 1894) Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches "St. John, Oliver (1598?-1673)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London:...
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Mark Rylance (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
the 2005 Channel 4 drama The Government Inspector and for playing Thomas Cromwell in the 2015 BBC Two mini-series Wolf Hall; for the latter role, he...
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Anna and the King of Siam is an American 1946 drama film directed by John Cromwell. An adaptation of the 1944 novel of the same name by Margaret Landon...
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oversight. Fictional Presidents who are shown to have served between Nixon and Bartlet include one-term Democrat D. Wire Newman (James Cromwell) and two-term...
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members. A 1970 episode of Daniel Boone, although fictionalized, portrays the courtship of Thomas Lincoln (played by actor Burr DeBenning) and Nancy...
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