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Dyce was closely connected with several literary societies, and undertook the publication of Kempe's Nine Days' Wonder for the Camden Society; and the old plays of Timon of Athens and Sir Thomas More were published by him for the Shakespeare Society.
The origin of the city name Amaurote derives from "Utopia" by Sir Thomas More (1478–1535).
Andrew started officially acting and writing scripts in YR11 & YR 12 Drama where he was awarded second place in the 'Carnivale Christie' competition for his portrayal as Sir Thomas More in an extract from 'A Man for All Seasons'.
In 2006, artist Rory Macbeth painted Sir Thomas More’s entire novel ‘Utopia’ onto an old Eastern Electricity building on Westwick Street in Norwich.
Books by Zuchardt include Der Spiessrutenlauf, Stirb Du Narr! (an account of Sir Thomas More's political life), and Wie lange noch Bonaparte?
It was used as a filming location for the exterior of Sir Thomas More's home in the 1966 version of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons (interior shots were done in a studio, not at Studley Priory).
One of the founding houses, More House, is named after the lawyer and scholar, Thomas More, who was beheaded in 1535 after he refused to sign an Act of Supremacy declaring King Henry VIII Royal Supremacy to the Church of England.
In 1531 he had been made a serjeant-at-law and king's serjeant; and on 20 May 1532 he was knighted, and succeeded Sir Thomas More as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, being appointed Lord Chancellor on 26 January 1533.
Sir Thomas More, in one of his last letters from the Tower of London, speaks of himself as having been for nearly forty years 'not a guest, but a continual nursling of the house of Bonvisi,' and styles Antonio the most faithful of his friends.
During Winn's tenure George Vertue recorded that a "large family picture of Sir Thomas More" was hung there, this was a copy by Rowland Lockey of the painting (now lost) by Hans Holbein and had been commissioned by the More family in 1592.
Utopia, a name for an ideal community or society, taken from the title of a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More.