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... Gresham College , have a special significance in the Tercentenary Celebrations . Sir Thomas Gresham was a remarkable man . He was one of the great British merchant venturers of Tudor times , probably the greatest of them all , who could ...
... Gresham College , have a special significance in the Tercentenary Celebrations . Sir Thomas Gresham was a remarkable man . He was one of the great British merchant venturers of Tudor times , probably the greatest of them all , who could ...
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... Gresham's great interests . In 1563 he was importing materials from Antwerp to build his mansion in Bishopsgate which was later to be his College . Stowe describes it as ' the most spacious of all others thereabout : builded of brick ...
... Gresham's great interests . In 1563 he was importing materials from Antwerp to build his mansion in Bishopsgate which was later to be his College . Stowe describes it as ' the most spacious of all others thereabout : builded of brick ...
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... Gresham College at the corner of Gresham Street and Basinghall Street , and in 1912 the present College was built on an extension of the same site where the first lecture was given in February 1914. The roll of the Gres- ham professors ...
... Gresham College at the corner of Gresham Street and Basinghall Street , and in 1912 the present College was built on an extension of the same site where the first lecture was given in February 1914. The roll of the Gres- ham professors ...
Contents
Foreword by Sir HOWARD FLOREY P R S vii | 13 |
Conversazione | 25 |
Banquet | 31 |
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