Edward More (1480–1541) was an English churchman and educator, Archdeacon of Lewes from 1527 to 1541.^[1]

Described as of Havant, he was elected a scholar of Winchester College in 1492. He went on to New College, Oxford, and supplicated for the degree of B.D. in 1518. From 1498 to 1502, he held a fellowship at Winchester and was head-master from 1508 to 1517. He was at a later date appointed canon of Chichester Cathedral, was instituted vicar of Isleworth on 3 March 1514–15, and on resigning that living in August 1521, became rector of Cranford.^[2]

On 29 October 1526, More was admitted the eighth warden of Winchester College, and held that office, together with the rectory of Cranford, till his death.^[3] From 1528 to 1531, he was also archdeacon of Lewes. As a schoolmaster, he was reckoned a stern disciplinarian. In the Latin poem descriptive of the wardens of Winchester (in Richard Willes's Poemata, 1573), Christopher Johnson wrote:^[2]

Qui legit hic Morum, qui non et sensit eundem,

Gaudeat, et secum molliter esse putet.

(Translation: "He who reads More here, and has not felt him, let him rejoice, and think himself well off".) As a pedagogue, he carried on the traditions of William Horman; in religion, he passed the baton to another conservative Catholic, John White, who followed him as headmaster and as warden.^[4]

More died in 1541 and was buried in the choir of Winchester College Chapel.^[2]

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "More, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.