See also:BARON See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:AUDLEY AUDLEY (c. 1488-1544)
, See also:lord See also:chancellor of See also:England, whose parentage is unknown, is believed to have studied at See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham See also:College, See also:Cambridge
.
He was educated for the See also:law, entered the See also:Middle See also:Temple (becoming autumn reader in 1526), was See also:town clerk of See also:Colchester, and was on the See also:commission of the See also:peace for See also:Essex in 1521
.
In 1523 he was returned to See also:parliament for Essex, and represented this See also:constituency in subsequent parliaments
.
In 1527 he was See also:groom of the chamber, and became a member of See also:Wolsey's See also:household
.
On the fall of the latter in 1529, he was made chancellor of the duchy of See also:Lancaster, and the same See also:year See also:speaker of the See also:House of See also:Commons, presiding over the famous See also:assembly styled the See also:Black or See also:Long Parliament of the See also:Reformation, which abolished the papal See also:jurisdiction
.
The same year he headed a deputation of the Commons to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king to complain of See also:Bishop See also:Fisher's speech against their proceedings
.
He interpreted the king's " moral " scruples to parliament concerning his See also:marriage with See also:Catherine, and made himself the See also:instrument of the king in the attack upon the See also:clergy and the preparation of the See also:act of supremacy
.
In 1531 he had been made a See also:serjeant-at-law and king's serjeant; and on the loth of May 1532 he was knighted, and succeeded See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas More as lord keeper of the See also:great See also:seal, being appointed lord chancellor on the 26th of See also:January 1533
.
He supported the king's See also:divorce from Catherine and the marriage with See also:Anne See also:Boleyn; and presided at the trial of Fisher and More in 1535, at which his conduct and evident intention to secure a conviction has been generally censured
.
Next year he tried Anne Boleyn and her lovers, was See also:present on the See also:scaffold at the unfortunate See also:queen's See also:execution, and recommended to parliament the new act of See also:succession
.
In 1537 he condemned to See also:death as traitors the See also:Lincolnshire and the See also:Yorkshire rebels
.
On the 29th of See also:November 1538 he was created See also:Baron See also:Audley of See also:Walden; and soon after-wards presided as lord steward at the trials of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Pole, Lord Montacute, and of the unfortunate See also:marquess of See also:Exeter
.
In 1539, though inclining himself to the Reformation, he made himself the king's instrument in enforcing religious conformity, and in the passing of the Six Articles Act
.
On the 24th of See also:April 1540 he was made a See also:knight of the Garter, and subsequently managed the See also:- ATTAINDER (from the O. Fr. ataindre, ateindre, to attain, i.e. to strike, accuse, condemn; Lat. attingere, tangere, to touch; the meaning has been greatly affected by the confusion with Fr. taindre, teindre, to taint, stain, Lat. tingere, to dye)
attainder of Thomas See also:Cromwell, See also:earl of Essex, and the See also:dissolution of Henry's marriage with Anne of See also:Cleves
.
In 1542 he warmly supported the privileges of the Commons in the
See also:AUDRAN
See also:case of See also:George See also:Ferrers, member for See also:Plymouth, arrested and imprisoned in See also:London, but his conduct was inspired as usual by subservience to the See also:court, which desired to secure a See also:subsidy, and his See also:opinion that the See also:arrest was a flagrant contempt has been questioned by See also:good authority
.
He resigned the great seal on the 21st of April 1544, and died on the 3oth, being buried at See also:Saffron Walden, where he had prepared for himself a splendid See also:tomb
.
He received several grants of monastic estates, including the priory of See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church in London and the See also:abbey of Walden in Essex, where his See also:grandson, Thomas See also:Howard, earl of See also:Suffolk, built Audley End, doubtless named after him
.
In 1542 he re-endowed and re-established Buckingham College, Cambridge, under the new name of St See also:Mary Magdalene, and ordained in the statutes that his heirs, " the possessors of the See also:late monastery of Walden," should be visitors of the college in per petuum
.
A See also:Book of Orders for the Warre both by See also:Sea and See also:Land (Harleian MS
.
297, f
.
144) is attributed to his authorship
.
He married (I) See also:Christina, daughter of Sir Thomas Barnardiston, and (2) See also:Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas See also:Grey, marquess of See also:Dorset, by whom he had two daughters
.
His See also:barony became See also:extinct at his death
.
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