Thomas More
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Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as a martyr and saint, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian and Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry
Sir Thomas More (1527)
Portrait of Saint Thomas More, executed on Tower Hill (London) in 1535, apparently based on the Holbein portrait
Rowland Lockey after Hans Holbein the Younger, The Family of Sir Thomas More, c. 1594, Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
Study for a portrait of Thomas More's family, c. 1527, by Hans Holbein the Younger
Margaret Roper
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Margaret Roper was an English writer and translator. Roper, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, is considered to have been one of the most learned women in sixteenth-century England. She is celebr
Thomas More
…give his young wife a better education than she had previously received at home, and tutored her in music and literature. The couple had four children: Margaret, Elizabeth, Cecily, and John. Jane died in 1511. Going "against friends' advice and common custom," within 30 days, More had married one of the many…
Portrait of Margaret Roper, from a 1593 reproduction of a now-lost Hans Holbein portrait of all the women of Thomas More's family.
Sir William Roper
Miniatures of William and Margaret Roper by Hans Holbein the Younger
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