Constituency Dates
King's Lynn 25 Feb. 1742 – 1747
Callington 21 Apr. 1748 – 1754
Newport 1754 – June 1756
Norwich 25 June 1756 – 1784
Family and Education
b. ?1712, 1st s. of Waller Bacon of Earlham. educ. G. Inn 1731, called 1738, bencher 1755. m. 4 Sept. 1742, Elizabeth Knight of Southampton, s.p. suc. fa. 1734.
Offices Held

Steward of Norwich 1750, recorder 1752 – 83; ld. of Trade Dec. 1759 – July 1765; chairman of committee of privileges and elections 1758–70.

Address
Main residence: Earlham, nr. Norwich.
biography text

In 1739 Edward Bacon was invited to stand with Tory support against the sitting Whig Members for Norwich, which his father had long represented.1J. Fowle to ’old’ Horace Walpole, 4 Nov. 1739, Walpole (Wolterton) mss. In response to local representations he agreed to defer a decision till he had consulted ‘old’ Horace Walpole, the senior sitting Member, who arranged for him to be brought in for King’s Lynn on the Walpole interest in 1742. He voted regularly with the Government and in 1748 was returned on the Walpole interest for Callington as a government supporter. He was again invited to stand for Norwich in 1754 but declined in order to oblige Pelham, who provided him with another seat.2Add. 32995, f. 128. Returned at last for Norwich in 1756, he continued to represent the city till shortly before his death, 12 Mar. 1786.

Author
R.R.S.
Volume
Commons 1715-1754
Notes
  • 1. J. Fowle to ’old’ Horace Walpole, 4 Nov. 1739, Walpole (Wolterton) mss.
  • 2. Add. 32995, f. 128.