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Thomas Cranmer
He helped Henry VIII get his first divorce, shaped the English Reformation, wrote the Book of Common Prayer, and was burned at the stake when the next monarch changed her mind about all of it.
1489–1556
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A reformer between crown and conscience
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1489
Quiet beginnings
Thomas Cranmer was born into a modest gentry family, growing up with an education that would later place him in scholarly and political circles.
