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i Thomas More was born on 7 February 1478, Milk Street, London to a lawyer called John More and his wife Agnes Graunge i was the fourth child of six children.
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i attend St Anthony's School in Threadneedle Street in London to study it was an expensive school but my father could afford it because he was a lawyer.
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in 1492 i was still contining my studies at Oxford University studing law.
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in 1492 i Enter Oxford for two years of study. i wrote comedies and studied Greek and Latin literature.
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i start work as a barrister after completing many years of law studies.
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thomas becomes a member of parliament.
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After considering priesthood he then decides to go against it and marries Jane Colt saying he would rather become a good
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in 1510 i was Appointed under-sheriff of London i was proud.
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Jane dies leaving me four children. i marrird Alice Middleton, a widow, a month later.
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Sent on a diplomatic mission to Antwerp where he begin writing Utopia.
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Elected speaker of parliament also elected speaker of the House of Commons.
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in 1529 i Made Lord Chancellor. witch was every exiting.
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Resigns chancellorship because he cannot support Henry's attempts to divorce .
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i Thomas More was tried and convicted for treason for refusing to take the oath of the Act of Succession.
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i ST Thomas More was beheaded on the tower of london alongside Bishop Fisher on July 6, 1535. my final words were: "The King's good servant, but God's First,
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"Even had he not been martyred, he still should have been canonized." Tthis qote was written by one of St. Thomas hagiographers.
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Four hundred years after my death, i Thomas More was canonized in the Catholic Church by Pope Pius XI and i was later declared the patron saint of politicians and statesmen by Pope John Paul II.
