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Mayor of Faversham, Kent, England, and murder victim
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Male
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Birth:
1508
Death:
1550
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The details
Biography
Thomas Arden (1508–1550) was Mayor of Faversham, Kent, England.
He was murdered by his wife, Alice, and her lover, Richard Moseby. This would inspire the Elizabethan play, Arden of Faversham, which in turn was the basis of the opera Arden Must Die (1967).