Sir Edmund Bacon, 13th Baronet
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edmund Castell Bacon, 13th and 14th Baronet
Baronetcy
As the
He was both the 13th and 14th Baronet of Bacon, since the 8th Bacon Baronet of Mildenhall in the County of Suffolk (created in the Baronetage of England on 29 July 1627), had succeeded as the 7th Bacon Baronet of Redgrave in 1755 when his third cousin, the 6th Bacon Baronet of Redgrave, died without heirs.
Family
Sir Edmund was born in 1903 at Raveningham Hall, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 12th Baronet, and Constance Alice Leslie-Melville.[1] He was educated at Wixenford, Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2]
On 15 January 1936, he married Priscilla Dora Ponsonby (1913–2000), daughter of
Career
Sir Edmund was appointed deputy lieutenant of Norfolk in 1939.[1]
He commanded the 55th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment of the
He was appointed as a
Sir Edmund died on 30 September 1982, aged 79.[1]
Awards and decorations
- Knight of the Venerable Order of Saint John
- Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1965)
- Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (1970)
Further reading
- Lindsay, Donald, Sir Edmund (Castell) Bacon: a Norfolk life, ISBN 0-947656-01-4, Maldon: Plume, 1988
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Sir Edmund Castell Bacon, 13th and 14th Bt". The Peerage. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^ Old Public School Boy's Who's Who (St James Press, 1933), p. 26.
- ^ Joanna Constance Bacon (b. 12 March 1937), Lavinia Winifred Bacon (b. 7 June 1939), Elizabeth Albinia Bacon (b. 15 January 1944), Sarah Bacon (b. 1 June 1947), and the 14th and 15th Baronet, Sir Nicholas Hickman Ponsonby Bacon.
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