Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper)
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Sir Nicholas Bacon was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal during the first half of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. He was the father of the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon.
Sir Nicholas Bacon by an unknown artist, 1579
Gorhambury House, remaining
Matthew Parker, a close friend of Bacon's
Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave, Suffolk, English Member of Parliament. In 1611 he became the first man to be made a baronet. Bacon would serve on many commissions. The Privy Council cons
Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper)
…Nicholas Bacon's first marriage was to Jane Ferneley (d.1552). Nicholas and Jane had six surviving children, three sons and three daughters: Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave (c.1540–1624), who married Anne Butts, the only child and daughter of Edmund Butts (a son of Sir William Butts, doctor to King Henry VIII) by his wife…
Portait of Sir Nicholas Bacon