Hôpital, Michel de l', Chancellor of France; stoutly resisted the persecution of the Protestants, and secured for them a measure of toleration, but his enemies were too strong for him; he was driven from power in 1568, and went into retirement; was spared during the massacre of St. Bartholomew, but it broke his heart, and he survived it only a few days (1505‒1572).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hope, Thomas * Hopkins, Samuel