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Also Known As Saint Thomas More
Born February 7, 1478 • London • England
Died July 6, 1535 (aged 57) • London • England
Title / Office chancellor (1529-1532), England
Subjects Of Study utopia

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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.
Woodcut map of the island of Utopia from Thomas More's Utopia, showing a circular island with towns, ships in the water, and Raphael Hythlodaeus speaking to figures in the lower left.
Painting of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in red robes standing across a table from Sir Thomas More, who is dressed in black, surrounded by courtiers in a grand hall with arched windows.
Oil painting by Antoine Caron showing the arrest and execution of Sir Thomas More, with Henry VIII in red under an archway at left and a small dog at right foreground.
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