ABSTRACT
Platonism has little directly to do with Gresham College. Its chief relevance to Sir Thomas Gresham's educational foundation is as part of the general context ofTudor intellectual life. Moreover, in so far as I am concerned with the kind of intellectual culture a particular educational institution produced - the relationship between Platonism as a school of thought and the school from which it came - parallels may be drawn with the intellectual culture that Gresham College helped to shape. And, as I shall show later, there is a tangible link between Gresham College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, seed-bed of the best-known form of English Platonism, namely the school of thought which has come to be known as Cambridge Platonism.
