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Born August 6, 1504 • Norwich • England
Died May 17, 1575 (aged 70) • Lambeth • England
Role In Reformation

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Henry VIII
king of England
John Foxe, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, 1587; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Foxe
English Puritan preacher and author
Latimer, detail of a panel painting by an unknown artist, 1555; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Hugh Latimer
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Rogers, John
John Rogers
English religious reformer
John Jewel, portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Bernard Gilpin
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Nicholas Ridley
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Richard Cox
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Miles Coverdale
bishop of Exeter
Francis Godwin, detail of an engraving by G. Vertue, derived from an earlier portrait, frontispiece to De Praesulibus Angliae, 1743
Francis Godwin
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Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
archbishop of Canterbury
Portrait painting by Hans Holbein the Younger of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, seated at a desk holding a paper, wearing dark robes and a black cap.
Thomas Cromwell
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Nicholas Sanders
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Elizabeth I
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Portrait of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger, showing More in dark robes and a black hat, wearing a gold chain of office, seated against a green and yellow draped background.
Thomas More
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William Laud
William Laud
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Edmund Grindal
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William Juxon
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