![]() ![]() Today, though, we may know More best for his invention of a word – and for his development of an idea that would be exported around the world. An establishment figure, he was also an enemy of the Protestant Reformation and is known today as a Catholic martyr, having been beheaded by King Henry VIII. Born in 1478, he was progressive in some ways (he educated his daughters to a very high level) while also clinging to archaic customs (he wore hair shirts). ![]() An English lawyer, statesman, writer and saint, Thomas More was a strange character.
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