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Thomas Cranmer

(1489-1556), Archbishop of Canterbury

Sitter in 47 portraits
Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1533 following the death of William Warham, it was Cranmer who secured Henry VIII's divorce from Katherine of Aragon later the same year. In the reign of Edward VI he was responsible for the first Book of Common Prayer, published in 1549. As a committed Protestant, Cranmer was deprived of office under the Roman Catholic Mary I and tried for treason. He eventually acknowledged Papal supremacy and the truth of Roman Catholic doctrines except for transubstantiation, but recanted just before his execution.

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