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Born August 6, 1504 • Norwich • England
Died May 17, 1575 (aged 70) • Lambeth • England
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Henry VIII
king of England
John Foxe, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, 1587; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Foxe
English Puritan preacher and author
Latimer, detail of a panel painting by an unknown artist, 1555; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Hugh Latimer
English Protestant
Rogers, John
John Rogers
English religious reformer
John Jewel, portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
John Jewel
English bishop
Bernard Gilpin
British clergyman
Nicholas Ridley
Nicholas Ridley
English bishop
Richard Cox
English clergyman
Miles Coverdale
bishop of Exeter
Francis Godwin, detail of an engraving by G. Vertue, derived from an earlier portrait, frontispiece to De Praesulibus Angliae, 1743
Francis Godwin
English bishop and historian
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Cromwell
Thomas Cromwell
English statesman
Nicholas Sanders
English scholar
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I
queen of England
Hans Holbein the Younger: Sir Thomas More
Thomas More
English humanist and statesman
William Laud
William Laud
archbishop of Canterbury
Saint John Fisher
English priest
Edmund Grindal
archbishop of Canterbury
Jeremy Collier
English bishop
William Juxon
archbishop of Canterbury