FRANCIS BACON 



FIRST BARON VERULAM AND 



VISCOUNT ST ALBANS 



Bom in London, 22nd January 1561, the son 

 of Sir Nicholas Bacon. Educated at Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, and later studied law at 

 Gray's Inn. In 1603 he was knighted and 

 married Alice Bamham. King's Counsel, 1604; 

 Solicitor-General, 1607; Attorney-General, 

 1 61 2; Privy Councillor, 161 6. In 1617 he 

 was appointed Keeper of the Great Seal 

 (Lord Chancellor), and raised to the peerage. 

 Charged with bribery in 1621, he was in the 

 following year disabled from sitting in Parlia- 

 ment. He was pardoned in 1624, but hence- 

 forward devoted himself to literature, and 

 died on Easter Sunday, 1626. 



