Lauren Thomas is the lead reporter on M&A and shareholder activism for The Wall Street Journal in New York. She consistently breaks market-moving news about the biggest deals across all industries.

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Thomas Becket, a London merchant’s son, was a complex person – in his youth he was a normal ebullient young man, stormy and proud, selfish and arrogant, vain, and anxious to please, but in later life, ...