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Sir nicholas bacon biography of rorys baby
Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper)
English politician (1511–1579)
For other people named Nicholas Bacon, see Nicholas Bacon (disambiguation).
Sir Nicholas Bacon (28 December 1510 – 20 February 1579) was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal during the first half of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
He was the father of the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon.
Life
He was born at Chislehurst, Kent, the second son of Robert Bacon (1479–1548) of Drinkstone, Suffolk, by his wife Eleanor (Isabel) Cage.
He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1527.[2] The college law society at Corpus, the Nicholas Bacon Law Society, founded in 1972, is named after him.[3]
There is a story that he evaded ordination by going into hiding "with the help of a rich uncle", and he seems to have entered an Inn of Chancery before being admitted to Gray's Inn five years later after a period in Paris; he was called to the Bar in 1533.[4]
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