Sir Thomas More - London

Sir Thomas More, born 7 February 1478 in Milk St London,was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and Lord Chancellor of England from 1529 to 1532.

He wrote many scholarly and literary works including Utopia in 1515.

More was executed on a scaffold erected on Tower Hill, London, just outside the Tower of London 6 July 1535.

St Dunstan's Church, an Anglican parish church in Canterbury, possesses More's head, rescued by his beloved daughter Margaret Roper and is sealed in the Roper family vault beneath the altar of the Nicholas Chapel.

He was both a trusted counsellor and advisor for King Henry VIII and an opponent of the Protestant Reformation, especially of Martin Luther and William Tyndale.