Quote of the day
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that 'the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.'
John Foxe
Born: 1516
Died: April 18, 1587 (aged 71)
Bio: John Foxe was an English Protestant writer, editor and translator. His immensely influential Acts and Monuments, better known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, was for three centuries one of the books most commonly found in English households.
Known for:
- Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563)