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4 unusual facts about Sir Nicholas Bacon


Nicholas Bacon

Sir Nicholas Bacon, 14th Baronet (born 1953), Premier Baronet of England, lawyer, and Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II

Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave (c. 1540–1624), his son, the first man created a baronet

Sir Nicholas Bacon, 14th Baronet

Sir Nicholas is the son of Sir Edmund Bacon, 13th and 14th Baronet and Priscilla Dora Ponsonby, daughter of Colonel Sir Charles Ponsonby, 1st Baronet.

Sir Charles Ponsonby, 1st Baronet of Wooton, Oxon


Elizabethan Religious Settlement

Elizabeth relied primarily on her chief advisors, Sir William Cecil, as her Secretary of State, and Sir Nicholas Bacon, as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, for direction on the matter.

Montagu Bacon

Bacon was the second of the three sons of Nicholas Bacon, Esq., son and heir of Sir Nicholas Bacon, of Shrubland Hall, Coddenham, Suffolk, who was one of the sixty-eight knights of the Bath created, 19 April 1661, by Charles II, "to attend his majesty's coronation" four days late (Thomas Salmon, Chronological Historian, 1747).

Thomas Fowle

On 22 July 1563, he was installed as second prebendary of Norwich Cathedral, when it was noted that he lived at Redgrave in Suffolk, where he was both rector of the parish and chaplain to Lord Keeper Sir Nicholas Bacon.


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