Sir Thomas More PC (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher...
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Sir Thomas More is an Elizabethan play and a dramatic biography based on particular events in the life of the Catholic martyr Thomas More, who rose to...
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Sir Thomas More and Family is a lost painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, painted circa 1527 and known from a number of surviving copies. The original...
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Portrait of Sir Thomas More is an oak panel painting created in 1527 by the German artist and printmaker Hans Holbein the Younger, now in the Frick Collection...
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Lady Alice, More (née Harpur; 1474–1546 or 1551), also known as Dame Alice Moore, was the second wife of Sir Thomas More, who served as Lord Chancellor...
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in Black, perhaps Sir Richard Cromwell Oliver Cromwell Thomas Cromwell was a patron of Hans Holbein the Younger, as were Thomas More and Anne Boleyn. In...
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Lord of the Manor. The chapel to the south was rebuilt in 1528 as Sir Thomas More's private chapel. The date can be found on one of the capitals of the...
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"Wolsey, Thomas" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). pp. 779–780. Ridley, Jasper. Statesman and Saint: Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More and the...
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documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More, followed by Cromwell's success in...
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Sir John More (c. 1451 – 1530) was an English lawyer and judge. He was the father of Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor. More was the son of...
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politician Thomas More (weaver), 17th-century lay theologian Thomas More (The Tudors), a character from the television series Sir Thomas More (play), an Elizabethan...
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king's serjeant; and on 20 May 1532 he was knighted, and succeeded Sir Thomas More as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, being appointed Lord Chancellor on...
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Chronology of Shakespeare's plays (section Sir Thomas More (1592–1595; Shakespeare's involvement, 1603–1604))
Sir Thomas More, A Play; now first printed. Additional information (attribution): that Shakespeare was involved in the composition of Sir Thomas More...
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Margaret Roper (redirect from Margaret More Roper)
Margaret Roper (née More; 1505–1544) was an English writer and translator. Roper, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, is considered to have been one...
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Sir Thomas Parr (1478 – 11 November 1517) of Kendal in Westmorland (now Cumbria), England, was a courtier and is best known as the father of Queen Catherine...
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In Praise of Folly (redirect from In Praise of More)
with Sir Thomas More at More's house in Bucklersbury in the City of London. The title Moriae Encomium had a punning second meaning as In Praise of More (in...
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published 1609 in the same volume; two passages from the manuscript play Sir Thomas More, and a few other works. In recent years, the anonymous history play...
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Great Seal and a mace. The Elizabethan play Sir Thomas More opens Scene II as follows: "Chelsea. A Room in More's House. A table being covered with a green...
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Canities subita (redirect from Thomas More Syndrome)
flight to Varennes during the French Revolution. An older case of Sir Thomas More's hair turning white the night before his beheading has also been recorded...
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The Tudors (category Cultural depictions of Thomas More)
finally joined by Sir Thomas More, who is granted permission by Henry to retire from the chancellorship. In episode 5, Fisher and More's refusal to sign...
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A Man for All Seasons (play) (category Cultural depictions of Thomas More)
Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More. An early form of the play had been written for BBC Radio in 1954,...
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Scofield received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for portraying Sir Thomas More in the Broadway production of A Man for All Seasons (1962). Four years...
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executed prisoners were displayed on spikes. Notable prisoners such as Sir Thomas More entered the Tower by Traitors' Gate. Although Queen Anne Boleyn is...
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Leslie Cubitt Bevis (section St Thomas More statue)
sculpture of St Thomas More. The statue was erected by public appeal for funding with Sir Arthur Richmond, as the chairman of the Thomas More Statue appeal...
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Gerard B.; Smith, Stephen W. (eds.). The Life of Sir Thomas More, c. 1556 (PDF). Center for Thomas More Studies. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December...
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scholars that the three pages of the handwritten manuscript of the play Sir Thomas More are also in William Shakespeare's handwriting. This is based on many...
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(with her husband Lord Guildford Dudley) and the Lord High Chancellor, Sir Thomas More. The original foundation date and location for the chapel is unknown...
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William Roper (category More family)
The son of a Kentish gentleman, he married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas More. He wrote a highly regarded biography of his father-in-law. William...
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daughter of Sir Thomas More. Clement's maiden name was Giggs. She was born in 1508 and was the daughter of a gentleman of Norfolk. Sir Thomas More was her...
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Hamlet with Richard Burton in 1953. He made his television debut as Sir Thomas More in Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons in a live broadcast in 1957...
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