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Secretaries of state of the Kingdom of England

  • Stephen GardinerStephen Gardiner entered the world in Bury St Edmunds on the 27th of July 1483, though historians still debate the exact year.
  • William Cecil, 1st Baron BurghleyWilliam Cecil arrived in the world on the 13th of September 1520 within the quiet village of Bourne, Lincolnshire. His father Sir Richard Cecil owned the…
  • Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of SalisburyRobert Cecil stood barely five feet tall with a spine curved by scoliosis. Queen Elizabeth I called him my pygmy while King James I nicknamed him my little…
  • William Knight (bishop)William Knight entered Winchester School as a scholar in 1487. He moved to New College, Oxford the following year. By 1493 he had become a Fellow there.
  • Thomas CromwellThomas Cromwell is thought to have been born by or around 1485 in Putney, then a village in Surrey providing a ferry service across the Thames upstream from…