Sir Thomas More Size:Large: 7 x 5in German composer

German composer

A woman representing the City is ejecting the Lord Mayor

15th May 1937

In the foreground figures stand on decorated ships and barges looking towards the dome of St Paul's Cathedral

Sir Thomas More Size:Large: 7 x 5in German composer'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).