More, Sir Thomas BrE AmE
(1478–1535) an English politician and writer. His most famous work is Utopia , which describes his idea of a perfect society. He was a powerful adviser to King ↑ Henry VIII , but he opposed the king's ↑ divorce (=the official ending of a marriage) and refused to accept him as the head of the ↑ Church of England . For this the king put him in prison and ordered his head to be cut off. The Roman Catholic Church later made him a ↑ saint .