BACON, Nicholas (c.1540-1624), of Redgrave and Culford, Suff.

Family and Education

b. c. 1540, 1st s. of (Sir) Nicholas Bacon by his 1st w.; bro. of Nathaniel and Edward and half-bro. of Anthony and Francis. educ. Trinity Coll. Camb. fellow-comm. 1561; G. Inn Dec. 1562. m. 1562, Anne (d.1616), da. and h. of Edmund Butts of Thornage, Norf., 7s. inc. Edmund 3da. Kntd. 1578; suc. fa. 1579; cr. Bt. 1611.DNB; GEC Baronetage, i. 1-2; Lansd. 152, ff. 6, 16.

Offices Held

Bailiff, Bury St. Edmunds 1571; j.p. Isle of Ely by 1574, Suff. by 1574; commr. musters, Suff. by 1576, sheriff 1581 – 82, dep. lt. by 1595; j.p. Norf. from 1579, sheriff 1597 – 98; ancient, G. Inn 1576; constable, Wisbech castle by 1597.A. H. Smith thesis, 390; Lansd. 56, f. 168 seq.; CSP Dom. 1595–7, pp. 371–2; APC, xxvii. 335; HMC 14th Rep. VIII, 139.

Parlimentarian

BACON, Nicholas (c.1540-1624), of Redgrave and Culford, Suff.

Main residences: Redgrave; Culford, Suff.

Author

W.J.J.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

BACON, Nicholas (c.1540-1624)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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