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1611—1707.

CREATIONS 22 1611 to 27 March 1625. May

JAMES

BY

I. BACON (Premier Baronetcy): cr. 22 May 1611.

[Note. — With this Baronetcy the Baronetcy of Bacon, cr. 29 July 1627, has been united since 30 April 1755.]

"Nicholas Bacon, of Redgrave, co. Suffolk, Knt.," s. and h. of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal (1559-79), by his 1st wife, Jane, da. of William, of West Creting, Suffolk, and of London (being elder br., of the half blood, to the still more celebrated LordChancellor, Francis Bacon, afterwards Baron Verulam and Viscount St, Albans), was b. about 1540; Pensioner of Gonville and Caius Coll., Cambridge, Nov. 1554; student of Gray's Inn, 1562; Sheriff of Suffolk, 1581-82, and of Norfolk, 1597-98; M.P. for Beverley, 1563-67; and for Suffolk, 1572-83; Knighted by Queen Elizabeth, at Norwich, 22 May 1578; suc. his father, 20 Feb. 1578/9; Sheriff of Suffolk (again) 1581, and was ''cr. a Bart.'', as above, at the institution of that Order, 22 May 1611, being the 1st person ever advanced to that dignity. He m. 1564, Anne, da. and