Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
Member of the Privy Council (1518)
Knighted (1521)
Speaker of the House of Commons (1523)
Lord Chancellor (1529-32)
Acts of Succession and Supremacy (1534)
Imprisoned in the Tower of London (April 17, 1534)
Tried in Westminster Hall (July 1, 1535)
Beheaded on July 6, 1535
Canonized in 1935
"The King's good servant, but God's First."