Sir Edmund Bacon, 2nd Baronet, of Redgrave
Sir Edmund Bacon 2nd Baronet of Redgrave | |
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Born | 1570 |
Died | 10 April 1649 |
Education | Corpus Christi College |
Title | Baronet of Redgrave |
Predecessor | Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave |
Successor | Sir Robert Bacon, 3rd Baronet |
Spouse | Phillipa Watton |
Parents |
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Family | Bacon Baronets |
Honours | Knight of the Shire |
Sir Edmund Bacon, 2nd Baronet (c. 1570 – 10 April 1649)
Biography
He was born in 1570 as the oldest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave, Suffolk and his wife Anne Butts.[2] Edmund was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and admitted to Gray's Inn in 1586.[3]
Due to his family influence, he became a Knight of the Shire while still in his twenties.[2] On 26 February 1593 he joined a subsidy committee. Later, on 9 March in 1593 he Edmund joined a legal committee.[2]
In 1624, Bacon succeeded his father as baronet.
Bacon married Philippa Wotton, the daughter of Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton.[5] Together, they had no children.[5] Her uncle, the diplomat Henry Wotton often came to Redgrave Hall to visit his "sweet niece". He enjoyed their company and wrote "there is in their conversations, and in the freedom of their entertainment, a kind of delightful violence". After Lady Bacon's death in 1626, Henry Wotton wrote to Bacon mentioning the monument of "his own excellent invention" which he had built for her at St Mary's Church, Redgrave.[6]
Edmund Bacon died on 10 April 1649 and was buried in Redgrave, Suffolk. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his younger brother Robert.[5]
References
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
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- ^ "Bacon, Edmund (BCN584E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 3.
- ^ a b c Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. Vol. I. London: Thomas Wotton. pp. 8–9.
- ^ Logan Pearsall Smith, Life and letters of Sir Henry Wotton, vol. 2 (Harvard, 1907), pp. 116-117, 130-132, 142, 208-209, 212, 221, 318, 378, 483