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Thomas More, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and martyr (born 1478)

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Thomas More

English politician, author and philosopher (1478–1535)

Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia,…
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Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Ministerial office in the United Kingdom

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is a ministerial office in the Government of the United Kingdom. Excluding the prime minister, the chancellor is the highest ranking minister in the Cabinet Office, immediately after the prime minister, and senior to the Minister for the…
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