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Bacon, Edward, d. 1618
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d. 1618
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BACON, SIR EDWARD, third son of Sir Nicholas Bacon Kt, Lord Keeper, and his first wife Jane, dau. of William Fernley, West Creeting, Suffolk; b.; it is stated in Al. Cant. that he matr. at Cambridge Univ Mich. 1561 (aged 12), as a fellow commoner of Trinity Coll., but if so he then went to the School; adm.; QS in 1564; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1566, Westminster Student to 1573; BA 1569/70; adm. Gray’s Inn 1566, ancient 21 Nov 1576; MP Great Yarmouth 1576 - Apr 1583, Tavistock Nov 1584 - Sep 1585, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis Oct 1586 - Mar 1586/7; High Sheriff, Suffolk 1600-1; knighted 11 May 1603; m. Helen, dau. of Thomas Littell, Shrubland Hall, Suffolk; d. 8 Sep 1618, aged 70. DNB, s. v. Sir Nicholas Bacon.
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GB 2014
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.