From an engraving by Uealli 



1779. She spent her later years 

 in retirement at Cowslip Green, 

 near Bristol, where she wrote 

 On Female Education, 1799 ; and 

 a novel, Coelebs in Search of a 

 Wife, 1809. She died Sept. 1, 1833. 

 See Life, with Notices of Her 

 Sisters, H. Thompson, 1838 ; Lives, 

 C. M. Yonge, 1888; A. M. B. 

 Meakin, 1911. 



More, SIR THOMAS (1478-1535). 

 English statesman and author. 

 He was born in Milk Street, Cheap- 

 side, Feb. 7, 1478. His father 

 John More, became a knight and a 

 justice of the king's bench. His 

 mother was Agnes, daughter of 

 Thomas Graunger. From S. 

 Anthony's grammar school in 

 Threadneedle Street he was ad 

 mitted, about 1489, into the house- 

 hold of Cardinal Morton. In 

 1492-94 he was at Oxford, where 

 a pupil of Grocyn and Linacre, 

 filled with enthusiasm for the new 

 learning, he studied Greek, Latin, 

 French, theology, and music, and 

 began his lifelong friendship with 

 John Colet. In London began his 

 friendship with Erasmus, and in 

 1501 he was called to the bar. 



More lectured on S. Augustine's 

 De Civitate Dei at S. Lawrence's, 

 Old Jewry, was for three years 

 reader at Furnival's Inn, and with 

 a view to holy orders placed him- 

 self under the direction of the 

 brothers of the Charterhouse. He 

 secretly wore a hair shirt, fasted 

 much, and each day heard Mass, 

 but gave up the idea of the priest- 

 hood in 1503. He became M. P. in 

 Jan., 1504, and continuing his close 

 study of the new learning, was 

 especially influenced by the Life 

 and Writings of Pico della Miran- 

 dola, a translation of which from 

 the original Latin he published in 

 1510. He visited Louvain and 

 Paris in 1508, and became bencher 

 of Lincoln's Inn 1509, and reader, 



1511 and 1516. Under-sheriff of 

 London, 1510, while an envoy in 

 Flanders 1515, he planned his 

 fascinating Utopia, 1516. 



Regarded with apparent high 

 ravour by Henry VIII, he was ap- 

 pointed speaker of the House of 

 Commons, 1523, and staunchly de- 

 fended the privileges of the House 

 against Wolsey, whom he suc- 

 ceeded as lord chancellor in 1529. 

 An ardent reformer of the school of 

 Erasmus, he took alarm at the 

 course which the Reformation was 

 taking in England. Conscience 

 compelled him to resign the chan- 

 cellorship in 1532, when Henry 

 claimed to be the one supreme head 

 of the Church of England. Though 

 willing to swear political fidelity to 

 the king, he refused in 1534 to take 

 any oath that should impugn the 

 spiritual authority of the pope. 

 Committed to the Tower, April 17, 

 1534, and indicted for high treason 

 in Westminster Hall, July 1, 1535, 

 he was executed on July 6, 1535, 

 the king changing the sentence 

 from hanging to beheading. His 



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body was buried in the church 

 of S. Peter ad Vincula, at the 

 Tower . According to tradition the 

 body was reinterred in Chelsea 

 Old Church. 



More was twice married, first, in 

 1505, to Jane Colte, of Newhall, 

 Essex, by whom he had three 

 daughters (Margaret, Elizabeth, 

 and Cicely), and one son (John), 

 and, secondly, about 1511, to Alice 

 Middleton, a widow. His family 

 included also his stepdaughter 

 Alice and an adopted daughter 

 Margaret Giggs. His domestic life 

 is described as his Utopia writ 

 large. His house at Chelsea, built 

 1520, was demolished in 1740. In 

 part of what was once the garden 

 stands the reconstructed Crosby 



MOREA'J 



Hall. In addition to the Utopia, 

 More is the reputed author of a 

 Life of Richard III ; he also wrote 

 a tractate on The Four Last Things, 

 and in the Tower his Dialogue of 

 Comfort. See Utopia. 



Bibliography. 11 Moro, E. Hey- 

 wood, 1556 ; Life and Writings 

 of Sir T. M., T. E. Bridgett, 1891 ; 

 Sir T. M., W. H. Button, 1895, 2nd 

 ed., 1900 ; The Utopia of Sir T. M., 

 in Latin and English, with Intro., 

 Notes, and Facsimiles, J. H. Lup- 

 ton, 1895; The Household of Sir 

 T. M., by Anne Manning, ed. with 

 Intro, by W. H. Hutton, 1896 ; 

 Great Englishmen of the 16th Cen- 

 tury, S. Lee, 1904 ; The Utopia, 

 with Roper's Life of More and Some 

 of His Letters, ed. G. Sampson, 

 1914 ; The Greatest House at Chel 

 sey, R. Davios, 1914. 



Morea, THE (perhaps from Slav. 

 more, the sea, or Gr. moron, mul- 

 berry, from its resemblance in 

 shape to a mulberry leaf). Medieval 

 and modern name for the Pelopon- 

 nesus, a term by which it has been 

 largely replaced since the libera- 

 tion of Greece from Turkish rule. 

 See Greece ; Peloponnese. 



Moreau, GUSTAVE (1826-98). 

 French painter. Born at Paris, 

 April 6, 1826, he studied at the 

 Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and ex- 

 hibited at the Salon, 1852. His 

 large painting of a subject from 

 the Song of Songs was purchased 

 by the state for the Dijon Museum. 

 The Athenians and the Minotaur 

 was exhibited, 1855, and Oedipus 

 and the Sphinx at the Salon, 1864. 

 Other important works are : Or- 

 pheus, Jason, Golgotha (all in the 

 Luxembourg), Diomed, 1866, Sal- 

 ome, and Helene, 1880. He died 

 April 18, 1898. 



Moreau, JEAN VICTOR MAKIE 

 (1763-1813). French soldier. Born 

 Aug. 11, 1763, at Morlaix, the son 

 of a lawyer, he 

 was educated 

 for the law at 

 Rennes, where 

 he made him- 

 self notorious 

 by his leader- 

 ship of the 

 students in 

 their disorders. 

 In 1790 he 

 joined the 

 revolutionary army, and, coming 

 early to the front, was, hi 1793, 

 made a general. He commanded a 

 division in Flanders, after which 

 he led an army into Germany. 

 After some successes he was com- 

 pelled to retreat, this able perform- 

 ance, however, adding to his repu- 

 tation. In 1797, suspected as a 

 traitor, he lost his command, but 

 in 1799 he was given a high position 

 with the army in Italy, where Le 

 led another masterly retreat. 



J. V. Moreau, 

 French soldier 



