Sir Thomas More Size:Large: 7 x 5in Christopher Neame as Lieutenant Dick

Christopher Neame as Lieutenant Dick Player

15th May 1937

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

View with figures including a man carrying a load on his back and a woman heading down Old Change

Sir Thomas More Size:Large: 7 x 5in Christopher Neame as Lieutenant Dick'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).