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Also Known As Baron Audley of Walden • Thomas Audley
Born 1488 • England
Died April 30, 1544 (aged 56) • London • England
Title / Office lord chancellor (1533-1544), England

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Audley, detail of an engraving by P.W. Tomkins, c. 1792, after a painting by Hans Holbein
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