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Sir Thomas More was born in London, England on February 7, 1478. He died on July 5, 1535, in Tower Hill, London, United Kingdom. He was beheaded because he did not accept Henry VIII. (Thomas)

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Before Sir Thomas More was known for writing Utopia and known for serving King Henry VII and King Henry VIII he had gone to the University of Oxford. His father had brought Thomas back to Study Law in London like he had done. Even though his father wanted him to become a Lawyer like himself, More considered becoming a monk. Instead, he had entered a political career and joined the parliament in 1504. He had then worked his way up to becoming a chancellor for King Henry VII. He had married Jane Colt and had 4 children, yet his wife did not make it, supposedly she had died while giving birth to one of her kids in 1511. He remarried to a widow named Alice Middleton. (Thomas)

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Thomas More became one of King Henry VII's servants whilst he had also written a book called Utopia.

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Utopia was a book that Thomas More had written as a fantasy world that would have everything. Utopia was published in December 1516. In this book, everything would be perfect so it would make sense that it was a fantasy island.  This book was named Utopia meaning "no place" in Greek. (Greek word - ou-topos (" no place "), play on eu-topos (" good place ") More had written Utopia to show how European Society could improve. After Thomas More had written Utopia he had made a Utopian Romance genre. (Thomas)

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In 1504 More had joined the parliament. At this time the King Henry VII (King Henry 7th) was king. More had tried persuade the parliament to decrease the budget to King Henry VII. Henry had imprisoned Mores father as a retaliation for what More had brought up with the persuading the parliament. After this More had withdrawn from the political services because of this matter. More had then rejoined the parliament after King Henry VII died (1509). (Schwager).

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Thomas More is also very known for his death. In 1532, Thomas had resigned from House of Commons because he had poor health problems. Although this might be the case some people may think that Thomas resigned because he disapproved King Henry VIII laws of the church and the fact that Henry VIII divorcing Catherine, his wife. (Television)

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Thomas More is known for writing a famous and accomplished book and why he had died and how he had died.

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Thomas More did not attend the coronation for Anne Boleyn ( the queen of England) in 1532 and King Henry VIII did not support this decision and was planning on getting revenge against Thomas More.  Following this in February 1534 More was accused of being involved in illegal activities with Elizabeth Barton (a nun) who was against Henry's break with the Church in Rome just to divorce his wife. Lastly, in that April More had objected to be sworn at King Henry's Act of Succession and the Oath of Supremacy. This had sent Henry very upset and so More was sent to the Tower of London and was found guilty on April 17, 1534. He was then beheaded on July 6, 1535. (Television)

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He was appointed the job of undersheriff of London in 1510 and was noted for equal treatment and in speed of seeing that cases were heard and notified in a timely fashion. More had than attracted King Henry VIII attention and he was given many high posts and missions on behalf of the government. He was made speaker of the House of Commons in 1523 where he had helped establish the privilege of free speech and he parliamentary. He was then made Chancellor in 1529 and had resigned in 1532, which was the peek of his career and reputation.  (Schwager)

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What he did during his Parliament services.