Sir Thomas More Size:Large: 7 x 5in Fishmongers' Almshouses at St Peter's

Fishmongers' Almshouses at St Peter's Hospital

Christopher Neame as Lieutenant Dick Player

William Brouncker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1660

15th May 1937

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Sir Thomas More Size:Large: 7 x 5in Fishmongers' Almshouses at St Peter's'Sir Thomas More', 1527, (1902). Portrait of More (1478 1535) as Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor. More refused to subscribe to the Act of Supremacy which made Henry the head of the English Church. In 1534 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, and beheaded on a charge of treason the following year. Illustration from Henry VIII, by A F Pollard, published by Goupil and Co, (London, New York, Paris, Edinburgh, 1902).