Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper)

He died in London[6] and was buried in Old St Paul's Cathedral;^[7] there were many tributes to him. His grave and monument were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. A modern monument in the crypt lists his as one of the important graves lost.

He had been an eloquent speaker, a learned lawyer, a generous friend; and his interest in education led him to make several gifts and bequests for educational purposes, including the foundation of a free grammar school at Redgrave in Suffolk.

Marriages and issue

Nicholas Bacon's first marriage was to Jane Ferneley (d.1552). Nicholas and Jane had six surviving children, three sons and three daughters:^[8]

• 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 Anne Bures,^[9] (whose inscribed ledger stone is in Redgrave Church)^[3] one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Henry Bures (d.1528) of Acton, Suffolk. Anne Butts was the heir of her uncle Sir William Butts (d.1583), junior, of Thornage, Norfolk, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1563, whose Easter Sepulchre monument survives in Thornage Church. Three of the daughters and co-heiresses of Henry Bures married three of the sons of Sir William Butts, senior.^[10]
• Edward Bacon (1548/9 – 1618), who married Helen Little, the daughter of Sir Thomas Little of Bray, Berkshire, by Elizabeth Lyton (daughter of Sir Robert Lyton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire), by whom he was the father of Nathaniel Bacon (1593–1660) and Francis Bacon (1600–1663).^[9][11]
• Sir Nathaniel Bacon (c.1546 – November 1622), who first married, in July 1569, Anne Gresham (d.1594), the illegitimate daughter of Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the Royal Exchange, by Anne Dutton; secondly, on 21 July 1597 he married Dorothy Hopton (c.1570–1629), daughter of Arthur Hopton and widow of William Smith of Burgh Castle, Suffolk.^[9][11]
• Elizabeth Bacon, who married:
  1. Sir Robert Doyley;
  2. Sir Henry Neville
     ,
  3. Sir William Peryam.^[9][12]
• Anne Bacon, who married
  Sir Henry Woodhouse
  .
• Elizabeth Bacon, who married:
  1. Francis Wyndham, the son of Sir Edmund Wyndham.,^[9][14]
  2. Robert Mansell^[15]

Sir Nicholas Bacon's second marriage, in 1553, was to Anne Cooke (1528–1610), one of the daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, by whom he had two sons:

• Anthony Bacon (1558–1601)
• Francis Bacon (1561–1626), who became Lord Chancellor and was also a philosopher, author and scientist.

Jane's widowed younger sister, Anne Ferneley (d.1596), married secondly in 1544 to Sir Thomas Gresham.^{[8][How does that fit in?]}

Notes

References

• Harley, John (2005). "'My Ladye Nevell' Revealed". Music & Letters. 86 (1). Oxford: Oxford University Press: 1–15.
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  on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
• Riordan, Michael (2004). "Henry VIII, privy chamber of (act. 1509–1547)".
  doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70825. (Subscription or UK public library membership
  required.)
• Smith, A. Hassell (2004). "Bacon, Sir Nathaniel (1546?–1622)".
  doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/998. (Subscription or UK public library membership
  required.)
• Smith, Hassell (2002). "Concept and Compromise: Sir Nicholas Bacon and the Building of Stiffkey Hall". In Harper-Bill, Christopher (ed.). East Anglia's History; Studies in Honour of Norman Scarfe. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. pp. 159–88.
  ISBN 9780851158785
  . Retrieved 25 March 2013.
• Tittler, Robert (2004). "Bacon, Sir Nicholas (1510–1579)".
  doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1002. (Subscription or UK public library membership
  required.)
• Tittler, Robert (1976). Nicholas Bacon; The Making of a Tudor Statesman. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.
• Ungerer, Gustav (1974). A Spaniard in Elizabethan England: The Correspondence of Antonio Perez's Exile. London: Tamesis Books. p. 278.
  ISBN 9780900411847
  . Retrieved 25 March 2013.
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bacon, Sir Nicholas" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• Kimber, Edward (1771). The Baronetage of England: containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English Baronets now existing, with their descents, marriages, and memorable actions both in war and peace. London: G. Woodfall. vol. 1, pp. 2–4.

External links

Wikisource has original works by or about:
Nicholas Bacon

• Elizabeth Bacon (d.1621), A Who's Who of Tudor Women: B-Bl. Retrieved 25 March 2013
• Bacon, Sir Nicholas (1510-1579), History of Parliament. Retrieved 25 March 2013
• Guide to the Sir Nicholas Bacon Collection of English Court and Manorial Documents circa 1200-1785 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
• Hutchinson, John (1892). "Sir Nicholas Bacon" . Men of Kent and Kentishmen (Subscription ed.). Canterbury: Cross & Jackman. pp. 7–8.

Political offices
Preceded by The Lord Paget	Lord Privy Seal 1558–1571	Succeeded by The Lord Burghley
Preceded by Nicholas Heath (Lord Chancellor)	Lord Keeper 1558–1579	Succeeded by Sir Thomas Bromley (Lord Chancellor)