Edward More (other)
Edward More may refer to: *Edward More (churchman) (1479–1541), English churchman and educator * Edward More (poet) (c. 1537–1620), English poet and grandson of Thomas More * Edward More (MP) (c. 1555–1623), MP for Hampshire and Midhurst See also *Edward Moore (other) Ed, Eddie or Edward Moore may refer to: Literature * Edward Moore (dramatist) (1712–1757), English playwright, poet and editor * Edward Moore, pen name of Edwin Muir (1887–1959), Scottish poet, novelist and translator Politics * Edward Moore, ...

Edward More (churchman)
Edward More (1480–1541) was an English churchman and educator, Archdeacon of Lewes from 1527 to 1541. Life Described as of Havant, he was elected a scholar of Winchester College in 1492. He went on to New College, Oxford, and supplicated for the degree of B.D. in 1518. From 1498 to 1502, he held a fellowship at Winchester and was head-master from 1508 to 1517. He was at a later date appointed canon of Chichester Cathedral, was instituted vicar of Isleworth on 3 March 1514–15, and on resigning that living in August 1521, became rector of Cranford. On 29 October 1526, More was admitted the eighth warden of Winchester College, and held that office, together with the rectory of Cranford, till his death. From 1528 to 1531, he was also archdeacon of Lewes. As a schoolmaster, he was reckoned a stern disciplinarian. In the Latin poem descriptive of the wardens of Winchester (in Richard Willes's ''Poemata'', 1573), Christopher Johnson wrote: :Qui legit hic Morum, qui non et sensit eu ...
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Edward More (poet)
Edward More may refer to: *Edward More (churchman) (1479–1541), English churchman and educator * Edward More (poet) (c. 1537–1620), English poet and grandson of Thomas More * Edward More (MP) (c. 1555–1623), MP for Hampshire and Midhurst See also *Edward Moore (other) Ed, Eddie or Edward Moore may refer to: Literature * Edward Moore (dramatist) (1712–1757), English playwright, poet and editor * Edward Moore, pen name of Edwin Muir (1887–1959), Scottish poet, novelist and translator Politics * Edward Moore, ...

Thomas More
Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote ''Utopia'', published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state. More opposed the Protestant Reformation, directing polemics against the theology of Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin and William Tyndale. More also opposed Henry VIII's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as supreme head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason and executed. On his execution, he was reported to have said: "I die the King's good servant, and God's first". Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr ...
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Edward More (MP)
Sir Edward More (c. 1555–1623) of Odiham in Hampshire was an English Member of Parliament. He was a Justice of the Peace for Surrey and Sussex from c. 1582 to c. 1587, and for Hampshire from c. 1584. He succeeded his father in 1581 and was knighted in 1600. Origins He was the son of John More (d. 1581) of Canon Row in Westminster, and of Crabbet in the parish of Worth in Sussex, a Member of Parliament for Winchelsea, by his wife Agnes Moulton (d. 1557), daughter and heiress of John Moulton of Lancashire and Westminster. Career More commenced his study of law at the Middle Temple, bound with his father and Richard Inkpen, but his name disappears from Middle Temple records after a fine for absence from readings and a pardon for another on grounds of ill health. It shortly reappears among the Gentlemen Pensioners at court. Between the late 1570s and the death of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), at whose funeral he was an official attendant, he divided his time betwee ...
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