He studied in London's St Paul's Cathedral School, and at a young age entered the household of John Colet.
[1][2] In Cambridge Lupset worked closely with Desiderius Erasmus, on New Testament and patristic texts.
From 1519 he was supported by Cardinal Wolsey at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, as a reader in humanities, as successor to John Clement.
It is set at Bisham Abbey, and may be based on an actual visit of Lupset to Pole there in 1529.
It is in the tradition of Utopia, and of Thomas Elyot's almost contemporary The Boke named the Governour.