Thomas More Resigns as Chancellor

Date: May 16, 1532 • Location: London, United Kingdom

Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.

Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as a martyr and saint, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian and Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state.