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Family and Education
b. 6 or 7 Feb. 1477 or 78, 1st s. of Sir John More of London by 1st w. Agnes, da. of Thomas Graunger of London. educ. St. Anthony’s sch. London; household of Cardinal Morton; Oxf. c.1492; New Inn c.1494; L. Inn, adm. 12 Feb. 1496. m. (1) by Jan. 1505, Jane (d.1511), da. of John Colt of Netherhall, nr. Roydon, Essex, 1s. 3da.; (2) 1511, Alice, wid. of John Middleton of London. Kntd. by Nov. 1521; suc. fa. 1530.Born on Friday, 7 Feb. in the regnal year 17 Edw. IV (mar. 1477-Mar. 1478), N. Harpsfield, Life of More (EETS clxxxvi), 298-303, but in 1478 the 7th was a Saturday, in 1477 Friday. Roper, 5-7, 105-10, 124; Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxf. to 1500, pp. 1305-8; Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiv), 566; LP Hen. VIII, iii; PCC 24 Jankyn; J. B. Trapp and H. S. Herbrüggan, ‘The King’s Good Servant’ Sir thomas More (National Portrait Gallery 1977-78), passim; DNB.
Offices Held

Auditor, L. Inn 1503, pens. 1507, butler 1507 – 08, marshal 1510 – 11, gov. 1511 – 12, 1514 – 15, Autumn reader 1511, Lent 1515.

Under sheriff, London Sept. 1510 – 23 July 1518; Councillor by Aug. 1517; j.p. Kent 1518, Mdx. 1522 – 32; jt. keeper, Exchange 1520; under treasurer, Exchequer 2 May 1521–5; commr. subsidy, Mdx. 1523, 1524; high steward, Oxf. univ. June 1524, Camb. 1525; steward, duchy of Lancaster, Herts. and Mdx. June 1525, chancellor 30 Sept. 1525 – Oct. 1529; ld. chancellor 25 Oct. 1529–16 May 1532.City of London RO, jnl. 11, f. 118v; rep. 3, f. 221; Corresp. More, ed. Rogers, 94; LP Hen. VIII, ii-v; Harpsfield, 24, 318; Somerville, Duchy, i. 393–4, 606. He is to be distinguished from a namesake of Sherfield-upon-Loddon, Hants (father of William More I*) who sat on the Hampshire bench, E.E. Reynolds, ‘Which Thomas More? A retraction’, Moreana, xiii. 73–82.’

Speaker of House of Commons 1523.

Parlimentarian
MORE, Thomas I (1477/78-1535), of London and Chelsea, Mdx.
Main residences: London; Chelsea, Mdx.
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H.M.
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Commons 1509-1558
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MORE, Thomas I (1477/78-1535)

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