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16th-century English translators
- Elizabeth IElizabeth was born on the 7th of September 1533 at Greenwich Palace. Her mother Anne Boleyn had been Henry VIII's second wife.
- Christopher MarloweChristopher Marlowe was baptised at St George's Church in Canterbury on the 26th of February 1564. He was the second child born to John Marlowe, a local…
- Thomas MoreThomas More entered the world on the 7th of February 1478 within the City of London. His father Sir John More was a successful lawyer who later became a…
- William TyndaleWilliam Tyndale stood before a dinner party in the early 1520s and declared that if God spared his life, he would ensure the boy who drove the plow knew more…
- Thomas HarriotThomas Harriot was born in 1560 within the city of Oxford. He entered St Mary Hall, a college at Oxford University, and his name appeared in the hall's…
- Thomas NorthThomas North entered the world between 9 and 10 o'clock at night on Friday, the 28th of May 1535. He arrived in the parish of St Alban, Wood Street, within…