 In 1924, Findlay won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, and spent two years at Balliol, reading greats. Despite his affection for Hegel, or perhaps because of it, Findlay had little interest in the British Hegelianism of Bradley or Bosanquet. He veered away from modern philosophy into studies of Plato, developing the hypothesis that Aristotle’s disparaging remarks about Plato’s late philosophy were important indicators of a deeper Platonic system than is found in the dialogues. This historical work, conceived decades before German scholars began writing in earnest about the ungescriebende Lehre of late Plato, earned him a First. It also planted the seeds of a book on Plato, which Findlay eventually published, after a typically long gestation, in 1974.