My wife's ancestors - Cooke - Contents
Bacon
- References:
- BACON, Viscount St.Alban's, in [Burkes Extinct]
- BACON, Baronet in [Burkes Peerage]
- Sources yet to be consulted:
Sir Nicholas Bacon.
Unknown artist, 1579.
From Wikipedia, which says public domain.
See other shot from St Edmundsbury Borough Council.
See other shot from Tudor Place.
Sir Nicholas Bacon,
born 1509, Protestant,
prominent statesman with his brother-in-law Cecil under Elizabeth,
mar Anne Cooke [descendant of King John],
built Old Gorhambury House, near St Albans, Hertfordshire (now a ruin),
died 1579,
had issue:
- Sir Francis Bacon, born 1561,
one of the founders of science.
Anne Cooke.
Portrait attributed to George Gower, 1580.
From Tudor Place. Also here.
Francis Bacon
tells a story
about his father.
This story was published by Francis Bacon in
A Collection of Apophthegms, New and Old,
1624.
The above is how it appears in a posthumous collection of his works,
Resuscitatio,
1671
(Apophthegm 36, p.228).
Old Gorhambury House
Old Gorhambury House, near St Albans, Hertfordshire.
From Tudor Place.
Old Gorhambury House, near St Albans, Hertfordshire.
Photo 2005 by Gary Houston.
See full size.
From here.
See terms of use.
Old Gorhambury House, wider shot.
Photo 2005 by Gary Houston.
See full size.
From here.
See terms of use.
- sirbacon.org
argues (unconvincingly)
that Sir Francis Bacon
was the son of
Elizabeth I
and
Leicester.
