Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury

(1120 c.-1170)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170 DNB: Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London] (1120?-1170), archbishop of Canterbury LBT ID: ThBecke1170 VIAF ID: 100187947 LOC ID: n80036571	B/BAP: 1120 DIED: 1170-12-29
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Opposed to the expansion of royal prerogative, he was martyred by Henry II.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury: George Darley to Lady Morgan, 23 January 1841 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter X. Found 1: ¶ 56 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXIX Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) REV. C. TOWNSEND Found 1: ¶ 16