Thomas More
7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535
English lawyer, humanist author of Utopia, and Lord Chancellor who was executed for refusing to accept Henry VIII as head of the English Church.
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Published Utopia
1516
The Latin work describing an ideal island commonwealth gave its name to an entire literary genre.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Resigned the chancellorship over the king's break with Rome
16 May 1532
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