Sir Thomas Elyot was a member of Sir Thomas More’s circle and praised him in his great treatise on education the
Governor, (1531). After More’s execution, however, he reneged, asking Cromwell to forget the erstwhile friendship. The
Governor experienced influence up to and throughout Elisabeth’s I reign. The book is thought to have been instrumental in determining the reformers to set up a tier of academies – the King
Edward VI grammar schools – in the early 1550s