Bacon

by Thomas Fowler

Excerpt from Bacon: Francis Bacon was born at York House in the Strand, January 22,1560-1. He was the youngest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper to Queen Elizabeth, by his second marriage with Anne, one of the daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, of Giddy Hall, in the county of Essex, formerly tutor to Edward the Sixth. One of his mother's sisters had been married, also as second wife, to William Cecil, afterwards Lord Burghley. Thus, the subject of this volume was not only the son of one of Elizabeth's highest officers of state, but, through his mother, the nephew of the most influential and the most able of all her ministers. By his first marriage Sir Nicholas Bacon had a numerous family, but by the second marriage he had two sons only, Anthony and Francis. Anthony, the elder of the two, died at an early age in 1601, and, though he was mixed up a good deal with foreign affairs and seems to have been a man of energetic character, never attained to any great celebrity.

214 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1881

About the author

Thomas Fowler was an English academic and academic administrator, acting as President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
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