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More SIR THOMAS, an English statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR THOMAS, an English statesman; born in London, England, Feb. 7, 1478. He was the only son John More, a judge of the Court of King's Bench. A portion of his youth was spent in the family of Cardinal Morand chancellor; and he was then sent to Oxton, Archbishop of Ca Canterbury, ford, and afterward entered at Lincoln's Inn. He had already formed an intimate . About 1502 he became a member of Parand lasting friendship with Erasmus liament, upholding the privileges of the House of Commons to treat all questions of supply as their own exclusive business. On the accession of Henry VIII. he was made under-sheriff of London. In 1514 he was envoy to the Low Countries, soon after a privy-councillor, and in 1521 was knighted. In 1523 he became speaker of the House of Commons, and in 1529 succeeded Wolsey in the chancellorship. When Henry began his attacks on the papal supremacy More supported the old system. Henry marked his matrimonial views. He was requested him out for vengeance as an opponent of to take the path to maintain the lawful- His refusal led to his committal to the ness of the marriage with Anne Boleyn. Tower and execution, July 6, 1535. His chief work is the "Utopia" (in Latin), a philosophical romance describing an ideal commonwealth.
More HANNAH, an English author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HANNAH, an English author; born in Stapleton, Gloucestershire, England, Feb. 2, 1745. She wrote verses at an early age, and in 1762 she published "The Search after Happiness," a pastoral drama. In 1773 she went on a visit to London, and was introduced to the Garricks, Dr. Johnson, Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds. She wrote two tales in verse, and two tragedies, "Percy" and "The Fatal Secret." After the publication of her "Sacred Dramas" she retired to Cowslip Green, near Bristol, where she did much to improve the condition of the poor in her neighborhood by establishing schools. Her novel, "Celebs in Search of a Wife," and a tract called "The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain," are some of the most popular of her works. She died in Clifton, England, Sept. 7, 1833.
More PAUL ELMER, author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PAUL ELMER, author; born in St. Louis, Mo., 1864, he graduated from Washington University in 1887 and attained his A.M. degree at Harvard in 1893. During the following year he was assistant instructor in Sanskrit at Harvard, and taught classical literature in addition, 1895-1897, at Bryn Mawr. He was literary editor of "The Independent" from 1901 to 1903, of the New York " Evening Post" from 1903 to 1909, and editor of "The Nation" from 1909 to 1914. His works include. "A Century of Indian Epigrams," "The Judgment of Socrates," translation translation of "Prometheus Bound" of Æschylus, "Life of Benjamin Franklin," "Shelburne Essays" (9 vols.), and "Platonism."
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921, Thomas More was simply "an English statesman" beheaded for refusing to endorse the Boleyn marriage; the Catholic Church beatified him in 1886 and Pius XI canonized him in 1935, four centuries after his execution, and John Paul II named him patron of statesmen and politicians in 2000. His popular reputation has swung twice since: Robert Bolt's play "A Man for All Seasons" (1960, filmed 1966) made him the conscience of Europe, while Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" (2009) put the emphasis back on More the hunter of heretics, a side these entries pass over in silence. Hannah More, presented here mainly as a friend of Dr Johnson and a founder of village schools, is now studied chiefly as an anti-slavery campaigner and best-selling moral writer, her Cheap Repository Tracts a case study in mass publishing. Paul Elmer More was still living when this was printed "1864-1937"; he went on to Princeton and completed his multi-volume "The Greek Tradition," and is remembered, if at all, as co-founder with Irving Babbitt of the New Humanism.
Written for this edition, 2026.