Sir Thomas Moore

Title: Sir Thomas Moore
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Sir Thomas Moore

Thomas More was born on February 7,1478 in Milk Street, London. He attended school at St Anthony's School in London. When he was young he was a page for Archbishop Morton who predicted he would be a "marvelous man.". He then went on to study at Oxford under Thomas Linacre along with William Grocyn. He wrote comedies and studied Greek and Latin literature. One of his first things that he wrote was an English translation of …showed first 75 words of 406 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 406 total…and court to the Field of the Cloth of Gold. In 1518 he became a member of the Privy Council, and was knighted in 1521. More helped Henry VIII in writing his Defense of the Seven Sacraments and wrote an answer to Luther's reply under a “pseudonym”. More had achieved Henry's favor, and was made Speaker of the House of Commons in 1523 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1525. As Speaker, More helped establish the parliamentary.

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