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Thomas More
Thomas More was born a Londoner in 1477 or 1478. He served as a
page, then studied at Oxford, was called to the bar and
subsequently had a highly successful career in the City. Sent on an
embassy to Flanders in 1515, he began Utopia there and completed it
back in London. From 1528 he actively resisted innovation in
religious matters and clashed with Henry VIII over his break with
the Church. In July 1535, after he refused to accept royal
supremacy over the church, he was tried as a traitor at Westminster
Hall and beheaded on Tower Hill. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI
in 1935.
Dominic Baker-Smith OBE was a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College,
Cambridge, Professor of English at University College, Cardiff, and
Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam. His books
included More's 'Utopia' (2000) and he edited three volumes in the
University of Toronto Press' Collected Works of Erasmus.
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