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See also:NORTON, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1532–1584) , See also:English lawyer, politician and writer of See also:verse, was See also:born in See also:London in 1532. He was educated at See also:Cambridge, and See also:early became a secretary to the See also:Protector See also:Somerset. In 1555 he was admitted a student at the Inner See also:Temple, and married Margery See also:Cranmer, the daughter of the See also:archbishop. From his eighteenth See also:year Norton had begun to compose verse. We find him connected with See also:jasper See also:Heywood; as a writer of " sonnets " he contributed to Tottel's See also:Miscellany, and in 156o he composed, in See also:company with See also:Sackville, the earliest English tragedy, See also:Gorboduc, which was performed before See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth in the Inner Temple on the 18th of See also:January 1561. In 1562 Norton, who had served in an earlier See also:parliament as the representative of Gatton, became M.P. for See also:Berwick, and entered with See also:great activity into politics. In See also:religion he was inspired by the sentiments of his See also:father-in-See also:law, and was in See also:possession of Cranmer's MS. See also:code of ecclesiastical law; this he permitted See also:John See also:Foxe to publish in 1571. He went to See also:Rome on legal business in 1579, and from 158o to 1583 frequently visited the Channel Islands as a See also:commissioner to inquire into the status of these possessions. Norton's Calvinism See also:grew with years, and towards the end of his career he became a rabid fanatic. His See also:punishment of the Catholics, as their See also:official See also:censor from 1581 onwards, led to his being nicknamed " Rackmaster-See also:General." At last his turbulent See also:puritanism made him an See also:object of fear even to the English bishops; he was deprived of his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office and thrown into the See also:Tower. See also:Walsingham presently released him, but Norton's See also:health was undermined, and on the loth of See also:March 1584 he died in his See also:house at Sharpenhoe, See also:Bedfordshire.
The Tragedie of Gorboduc was first nnhlicharl ~~an~ ~~**+~~+~•~in 1565, and, in better See also:form, as The Tragedie of Feerex and Porrex, in 1570. Norton's early lyrics have in the See also:main disappeared. The most interesting of his numerous See also:anti-See also:Catholic See also:pamphlets are those on the See also:rebellion of See also:Northumberland and on the projected See also:marriage of See also:Mary Queen of Scots to the See also:duke of See also:Norfolk. Norton also translated See also:Calvin's Institutes (1561) and See also:Alexander See also:Nowell's See also:Catechism (1570).
Gorboduc appears in various dramatic collections, and was separately edited by W. D. See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
Cooper (See also:Shakespeare See also:Soc. 1847), and by See also:Miss Toulmin See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith in Volkmoller's Englische Sprach- and Literaturdenkmale (1883). The best See also:account of Norton, and his See also:place in See also:literary See also:history, is that of See also:Sidney See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee in his See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography. (E.
End of Article: NORTON, THOMAS (1532–1584)
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